{"id":9804,"date":"2016-07-07T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2019-09-12T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:07:09","slug":"twisted-drama-feels-like-dose-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/art-entertainment\/twisted-drama-feels-like-dose-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted drama feels like a dose of therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FatherFatherFather.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;quality=95&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FatherFatherFather.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=95&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FatherFatherFather.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;quality=95&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> At a National Arts Festival packed with psycho drama, the dark little comedy Father, Father Father! felt like a good dose of therapy \u2026 if not a dose of good therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award-winning play \u2013 created by Roberto Pombo, Joni Barnard and Racheal Neary \u2013 conjures up all sorts of weirdness and creepy possibility as three sisters, who are stuck in a basement, await the return of their father \u2026 and a big black horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Roberto.jpg?resize=93%2C140&#038;quality=95&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9806\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Toni Morkel, this somewhat disturbing but very amusing play by Robaby productions, is heavy with metaphor. It frequently seems twisted, but then that\u2019s open to interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As expected, Pombo fools around in his fishnets a bit. His idea of slap and tickle slaps the audience around in a playful way which never quite becomes menacing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excellent performances by Neary and Barnard as two oversized little girls who veer between saccharine and sinister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 African News Agency (ANA)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a National Arts Festival packed with psycho drama, the dark little comedy Father, Father Father! felt like a good dose of therapy \u2026 if not<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/art-entertainment\/twisted-drama-feels-like-dose-therapy\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[411],"tags":[401],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Father.jpg?fit=133%2C200&quality=95&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11428,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions\/11428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}