{"id":66,"date":"2017-07-01T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2017-07-01T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T15:21:04","slug":"ariadne-productions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/ariadne-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariadne Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My introduction to community based theatre came in Glastonbury, in the Victorian Assembly Rooms, where the local alternative population had spawned Ariadne Productions, who staged lavish, large-scale mystery plays harnessing the skills and talents of a great many people in the local alternative community. Kathy Jones, the writer and producer, met, and then promptly dreamt about me, and proceeded to write a Tibetan play based on those dreams, in which I was to act the central character &#8211; one quite true to myself in a strangely eerie way&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-239 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/taraprog-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/taraprog-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/taraprog.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 85vw, 217px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tarapic-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tarapic-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tarapic.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>I played Lepchani, in Kathy Jones&#8217; &#8220;<b>Green Tara<\/b>&#8220;, directed by Kathy Jones, in the Assembly Rooms, in the round, in December 1988.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shining-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shining-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shining.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 85vw, 265px\" \/>In April 1989, (and again at the Glastonbury Festival in June 1989,) I played Arawn, Holly King of the Underworld, and Havgan, the Oak King of Summer, in Kathy Jone&#8217;s adaptation of the Celtic manuscript, the Mabinogion &#8211; &#8220;<b>The Shining Ones<\/b>&#8220;, in the Assembly Rooms, in the round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My introduction to community based theatre came in Glastonbury, in the Victorian Assembly Rooms, where the local alternative population had spawned Ariadne Productions, who staged lavish, large-scale mystery plays harnessing the skills and talents of a great many people in the local alternative community. Kathy Jones, the writer and producer, met, and then promptly dreamt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/ariadne-productions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ariadne Productions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}