{"id":7042,"date":"2017-01-27T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2017-01-27T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:19:29","slug":"event-wrestling-with-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/2017\/01\/27\/event-wrestling-with-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Wrestling with Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/01\/wrestling-with-freedom-e1485544590767.jpg\" alt=\"wrestling with freedom\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/01\/wrestling-with-freedom-e1485544590767.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/01\/wrestling-with-freedom-e1485544590767-636x382.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/01\/wrestling-with-freedom-e1485544590767-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/files\/2017\/01\/wrestling-with-freedom-e1485544590767-1024x614.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three powerful one-act plays written and directed by Jacqui Parker, Wrestling with Freedom connects African-American history to the country&#8217;s present predicament. In play one, the audience is transported to the 18th century and meets Phillis Wheatley.<!--more--> Play two is set in the 19th century with Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, and John Brown. In play three, set three years in the future, a modern-day civil war is looming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Performance dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday, February 10, 7:30pm<br \/>\nSaturday, February 11, 7:30pm<br \/>\nSunday, February 12, 4pm<br \/>\nFriday, February 17, 7:30pm<br \/>\nSaturday, February 18, 7:30pm<br \/>\nSunday, February 19, 4pm<br \/>\nFriday, February 24, 7:30pm<br \/>\nSaturday, February 25, 7:30pm<br \/>\nSunday, February 26, 4pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Admission: $25<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Senior\/Student: $15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> VIP: $35 (includes entrance to pre-show reception)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.vendini.com\/ticket-software.html?t=tix&amp;e=371e355388140378970c7ab2d6fb2a30&amp;rtype=twitter-member\" target=\"_blank\">BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictured above: Phillis Wheatley (detail of Boston&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Memorial by Meredith Gang Bergmann, 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three powerful one-act plays written and directed by Jacqui Parker, Wrestling with Freedom connects African-American history to the country&#8217;s present predicament. In play one, the audience is transported to the 18th century and meets Phillis Wheatley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,1],"tags":[425,426,429,430,307,427,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}