{"id":24875,"date":"2018-01-21T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/21\/so-many-reasons-review-clever-and-candid-coming-of-age-tale\/"},"modified":"2018-01-21T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T13:25:09","slug":"so-many-reasons-review-clever-and-candid-coming-of-age-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=24875","title":{"rendered":"So Many Reasons review \u2013 clever and candid coming-of-age tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camden People\u2019s theatre, LondonRacheal Ofori is a British-Ghanaian millennial reckoning with sex, spirituality and herself in this refreshing one-woman showHeadlining Calm Down Dear, an annual festival of feminist theatre at Camden People\u2019s Theatre, is Racheal Ofori\u2019s likable and refreshingly candid one-woman show. So Many Reasons introduces us to Melissa, a British-Ghanaian millennial who wants to take control of her body.Growing up is always hard to do, but for pious Christian teenager Melissa it proves particularly tough. She transforms from a child accused of being a lesbian because she could run fast into a disillusioned young woman, pinned like a butterfly by the expectations of Ghanaian and western culture and by her religion. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2018\/jan\/21\/so-many-reasons-review-calm-down-dear-festival\" target=\"_blank\">So Many Reasons review \u2013 clever and candid coming-of-age tale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camden People\u2019s theatre, LondonRacheal Ofori is a British-Ghanaian millennial reckoning with sex, spirituality and herself in this refreshing one-woman showHeadlining Calm Down Dear, an annual festival of feminist theatre at Camden People\u2019s Theatre, is Racheal Ofori\u2019s likable and refreshingly candid one-woman show. So Many Reasons introduces us to Melissa, a [&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-24875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875","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=24875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}