{"id":776,"date":"2015-02-14T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebzbproductions.ebzb.org\/paul-green-foundation-newsletter-highlights-native\/"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T17:42:00","slug":"paul-green-foundation-newsletter-highlights-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/2015\/02\/14\/paul-green-foundation-newsletter-highlights-native\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Green Foundation Newsletter Highlights &#8220;Native&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 128, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #018000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"color: black; font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot;; font-size: 11px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><b>Paul Green Foundation&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 128, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #018000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 20px;\"><b>NEWS<\/b><\/span><b style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 16px;\"> \u2013 February 2015<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\">\n<b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\">\n<b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\">\n<b>\u201cNative\u201d by Ian Finley<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #323333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11px;\">\n<span style=\"color: #494949; font-size: 12px;\"><b>Deep Dish New Play Workshop 2015<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"> <br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nDeep Dish Theater presented a developmental workshop of EbzB Productions&#8217; &nbsp;\u201cNative,\u201d a new play by Triangle playwright and former Piedmont Laureate Ian<b> <\/b>Finley, January 14-18.&nbsp; Directed by <b>Serena<\/b> <b>Ebhardt,<\/b> the workshop continued the company&#8217;s 14th season at University Mall.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #323333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 8px; min-height: 9px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #323333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11px;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot;;\">&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cNative\u201d is based on the true story of the collaboration between North Carolina playwright icon, <b>Paul Green<\/b>, and the celebrated novelist <b>Richard Wright<\/b>, the author most famously of&nbsp;<i>Native Son<\/i>.&nbsp; The two men were brought together to adapt Wright&#8217;s novel for Orson Welles&#8217; 1941 Broadway production, and the play explores the battle of wills that ensued.<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #323333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 8px; min-height: 9px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #323333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11px;\">\nThe very successful workshop was presented with script in hand, and the text continued to evolve over the five-day run. Audience members had the opportunity \u2013 which they took enthusiastically \u2013 to share their helpful reactions to the play in post-performance conversations.&nbsp; Actors were <b>David zum Brunnen<\/b> as Paul Green and <b>Gil Faison<\/b> (most performances) as Richard Wright.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #323333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 8px; margin-bottom: 10px; min-height: 9px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div>EbzB Productions &#8211; Your World Is Our Stage!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ebzb.org<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Paul Green Foundation&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NEWS \u2013 February 2015 \u201cNative\u201d by Ian Finley Deep Dish New Play Workshop 2015 Deep Dish Theater presented a developmental workshop of EbzB Productions&#8217; &nbsp;\u201cNative,\u201d a new play by Triangle playwright and former Piedmont Laureate Ian Finley, January 14-18.&nbsp; Directed by Serena Ebhardt, the workshop continued the company&#8217;s 14th season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37,38,51,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-zum-brunnen","category-gil-faison","category-ian-finley","category-native","category-serena-ebhardt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebzb.org\/WPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}