{"id":37618,"date":"2013-09-04T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37618"},"modified":"2013-09-04T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T02:07:18","slug":"joyce-carol-oates-play-tone-clusters-comes-to-the-theatricum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/04\/joyce-carol-oates-play-tone-clusters-comes-to-the-theatricum\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Carol Oates&#8217; Play Tone Clusters, Comes to the Theatricum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/tone_clusters_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Multiple Pulitzer prize nominee Joyce Carol Oates&#8217; 1990 play, Tone Clusters, comes to the open-air theater Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon this month. <\/p>\n<p>The two-person play, which is based on the story of a man convicted for murdering a 13 year old girl, is directed by Mike Peebler, and stars Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James. Tone Clusters, according to Peebler, &#8221; is about the &#8216;spectacularization&#8217; of tragedy in our culture&#8230; It&#8217;s about the way we take horrible events and turn them into a product to be consumed, passing instantaneous judgment and dehumanizing those involved in the process.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The actors, Blumenfeld and James, play the roles of Frank and Emily Gulick respectively &#8212; a regular American couple who are thrust into the spotlight when their son is arrested for killing a girl in their neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>Although &#8220;the media&#8221; as a collective presence, is not seen on stage, a disembodied voice played by Jeff Wiesen, symbolizes the unseen role of the press. <\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with all three actors on September 4, 2013. Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NJNxPsGSzeI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More details about the play are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatricum.com\">www.theatricum.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/tone_clusters_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Multiple Pulitzer prize nominee Joyce Carol Oates&#8217; 1990 play, Tone Clusters, comes to the open-air theater Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon this month. <\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with actors Alan Blumenfeld, Katherine James, and Jeff Wiesen on September 4, 2013. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: http:\/\/youtu.be\/NJNxPsGSzeI<\/p>\n<p>More details about the play are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatricum.com\">www.theatricum.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37624,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37618\/revisions\/37624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}