{"id":176,"date":"2013-10-24T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordbeat.net\/?p=176"},"modified":"2013-11-16T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T18:33:06","slug":"grandmas-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/grandmas-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma\u2019s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four: Two men and two women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grandma\u2019s Funeral is a dark comic one-act play about a Polish-American family \u2013 an aging mother and her three grown siblings. Through interlocking monologues each sibling and the mother relate a different point of view about their life as a family. They also share their own distorted memories about the sad and comic events that take place during grandma\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Production History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staged by the Cellar Door Players at the Royal George Theatre, Chicago Illinois<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staged by Boulevard Ensemble, Milwaukee, Wisconsin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reviews<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to the success of this terrific play is in the details \u2013 the ones described by the characters and the ones suggested by what\u2019s left unsaid. Like a Chicago ethnic Mark Twain, playwright Wawzenek knows his characters inside out, and he knows how to let us discover them gradually and inferentially.\u201d \u2014 <em>Chicago Reader<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandma\u2019s Funeral is hilarious as the quarreling middle-aged children and their mother tell of the misfortunes they encounter in the planning of the funeral.\u201d \u2014 <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/wordbeat.net\/contact\/\">Click here to request a copy of the script or for permission to perform this play.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four: Two men and two women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grandma\u2019s Funeral is a dark comic one-act play about a Polish-American family \u2013 an aging mother and her three grown siblings. Through interlocking monologues each sibling and the mother relate a different point of view about their life as a family.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/grandmas-funeral\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordbeat.net\/wbsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}