{"id":114415,"date":"2019-10-13T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/13\/hottest-ticket-in-town-the-mega-sauna-hosting-a-euro-theatre-contest\/"},"modified":"2019-10-13T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T14:00:09","slug":"hottest-ticket-in-town-the-mega-sauna-hosting-a-euro-theatre-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114415","title":{"rendered":"Hottest ticket in town: the mega sauna hosting a Euro theatre contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drama competition for 200 naked people in a giant sauna? Our writer gets a sweaty taste of \u2018aufgass\u2019 in the NetherlandsI am standing behind a partition rope, waiting for the theatre to open. An excited hum rises off the crowd, and there is jostling when the stewards throw open the doors. As a theatre critic, I have stood in countless such queues. I should not feel the fear that I do, but there is one vital difference here: audience members are wearing nothing more than bath robes and flip-flops.And then they\u2019re not even wearing those. All clothes are discarded as they race to claim a seat on the tiered wooden benches inside the auditorium and lay down towels to mark their spot. In a matter of minutes, there is a neatly arranged room of almost 200 naked people sitting in a heated amphitheatre, waiting for the show to begin. I am as disrobed as the rest of them. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/oct\/13\/sauna-naked-theatre-aufguss-world-championships\" target=\"_blank\">Hottest ticket in town: the mega sauna hosting a Euro theatre contest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drama competition for 200 naked people in a giant sauna? Our writer gets a sweaty taste of \u2018aufgass\u2019 in the NetherlandsI am standing behind a partition rope, waiting for the theatre to open. An excited hum rises off the crowd, and there is jostling when the stewards throw open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}