{"id":778,"date":"2010-03-05T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2010\/03\/our-heroines.html"},"modified":"2010-03-05T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T02:56:00","slug":"our-heroines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Our Heroines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I saw <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/2010\/03\/art-of-co-existence-or-parenting-fail.html\">God of Carnage<\/a> <\/span>starring Janet McTeer and have started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorothy_L._Sayers\">Dorothy L. Sayers<\/a>&#8216; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Strong Poison, <\/span>a mystery which introduced the literary world to Harriet Vane (most famously played by Harriet Walter on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092396\/\">BBC<\/a>). So what better way to spend a Friday evening than recalling the two ladies in their acclaimed run of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/08\/oh-hey-janet-mcteer-what-up.html\">Mary Stuart<\/a> from last season? (And PBS, where was Great Performances when we needed you to air this gem?)<\/p>\n<p>First up are some of the favorite scenes:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QAMgaITscSg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QAMgaITscSg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JOrWRInvFwo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JOrWRInvFwo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And here are the ladies being interviewed during a Vanity Fair photo shoot:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5zwDsA4yIOA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5zwDsA4yIOA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>After seeing both this production and the import of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/10\/throne-of-denmark-is-desecrated-by.html\">Hamlet<\/a> <\/span>last year, I will gladly see anything the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donmarwarehouse.com\/\">Donmar Warehouse<\/a> wants to bring to NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I saw God of Carnage starring Janet McTeer and have started reading Dorothy L. Sayers&#8216; Strong Poison, a mystery which introduced the literary world to Harriet Vane (most famously played by Harriet Walter on the BBC). So what better way to spend a Friday evening than recalling the two ladies in their acclaimed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Heroines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2309,2306,2308],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-harriet-walter","tag-janet-mcteer","tag-mary-stuart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}