{"id":16867,"date":"2017-11-26T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T13:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/26\/roller-review-its-theatre-as-full-contact-sport-in-urgent-look-at-female-power\/"},"modified":"2017-11-26T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T13:31:34","slug":"roller-review-its-theatre-as-full-contact-sport-in-urgent-look-at-female-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=16867","title":{"rendered":"Roller review \u2013 it&#039;s theatre as full-contact sport in urgent look at female power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pit, LondonCurrent events cast a timely light on this funny, gripping story of oppression, told through the world of all-female roller derby\u2018This is a witch hunt. We are the witches, and we are coming,\u201d say the two women towering above the stage. This pair of giantesses break the silence and command the space. They have eyes like steel, they read from books like reckoning angels and they wear long skirts and breast plates, suggesting something ancient yet futuristic. But it is the present under urgent consideration in this collaboration by Rachel Mars and Nat Tarrab, the winner of this year\u2019s Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award, which has been made with an all-female team. Because theatre is programmed so far in advance, it is unusual to see a show that responds so directly to the moment. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2017\/nov\/26\/roller-review-its-theatre-as-full-contact-sport-roller-derby\" target=\"_blank\">Roller review \u2013 it&#039;s theatre as full-contact sport in urgent look at female power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pit, LondonCurrent events cast a timely light on this funny, gripping story of oppression, told through the world of all-female roller derby\u2018This is a witch hunt. We are the witches, and we are coming,\u201d say the two women towering above the stage. This pair of giantesses break the silence [&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-16867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867","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=16867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}