{"id":5362,"date":"2018-05-30T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2018-05-30T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:36:59","slug":"still-life-with-chickens-final-week-in-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/still-life-with-chickens-final-week-in-wellington\/","title":{"rendered":"STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: final week in Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5363\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5363\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/circa.jpg?resize=525%2C253\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"253\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I think I have two new favourite words: &#8216;sold out&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Wellington season, despite some <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/02\/still-life-with-chickens-final-approach-to-wellington-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early nerves<\/a>, has gone very nicely with good houses and great reviews from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreview.org.nz\/reviews\/review.php?id=11058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatreview<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thetheatretimes.com\/still-life-chickens-new-samoan-play-confronts-loneliness-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Theatre Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of nerves, the extended Mamea aiga attended the opening night: our\u00a0<strong>Stern but Loving Parents<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Awesome Sister<\/strong> and her girls, and\u00a0<strong>Staunch Bro<\/strong> and his family. They said they enjoyed the show and I can&#8217;t ask for more than that.\u00a0<strong>The Lovely Wife<\/strong> was not called on to take one for her husband so it was quite the lovefest and very validating for this writer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BilccUXjrDv\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"background: url(data:image\/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc\/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5\/p8\/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo\/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli\/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif\/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BilccUXjrDv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Forbearing Husband outside Circa Theatre where Still Life with Chickens is larger than life. #stilllifewithchickens #playwrite #wellingontheatre #nztheatre #pasifika #deadlyponies #cowboybootsandbrokenfingers<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/deadlyponies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ChrissyB<\/a> (@deadlyponies) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-05-10T05:24:05+00:00\">May 9, 2018 at 10:24pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to leave further\u00a0<em>Still Life<\/em> updates to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChocolateStigmata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chocstigmata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. I&#8217;ve other projects that need progressing, and much as I like to shuck and jive away from work, deadlines<em> loom<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wellington season, despite some early nerves, has gone very nicely with good houses and great reviews from Theatreview and The Theatre Times. Speaking of nerves, the extended Mamea aiga attended the opening night: our\u00a0Stern but Loving Parents,\u00a0Awesome Sister and her girls, and\u00a0Staunch Bro and his family. They said they enjoyed the show and I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/still-life-with-chickens-final-week-in-wellington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS: final week in Wellington&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1246,1089,1315,1314,1210,1264,1317,1316,928],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-awesome-sister","tag-circa-theatre","tag-staunch-bro","tag-stern-but-loving-parents","tag-still-life-with-chickens","tag-the-lovely-wife","tag-the-theatre-times","tag-theatreview","tag-wellington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5369,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}