{"id":15,"date":"2010-10-25T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattkemple.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-10-25T07:03:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:03:19","slug":"tape-by-stephen-belber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/2010\/10\/tape-by-stephen-belber\/","title":{"rendered":"Tape by Stephen Belber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-72\" title=\"poster_tape-web\" src=\"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/poster_tape-web-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Now here is a project I have been looking forward to for a very long time: <em>Tape<\/em> by StephenBelber.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The play&#8217;s focus is controversial, intense, violent, and very exciting! \u00a0I&#8217;ll be playing Vince, a bad\u2010tempered, drug-dealing volunteer fireman &#8211; a very different character from anything I&#8217;ve played before.<\/p>\n<p>Another aspect of this show is the unique, site-specific setting. <em>Tape<\/em> takes place in a hotel room, and Pink Banana Theatre has teamed up with the Best Western Inn Towne Hotel to produce the show in a room of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The show is already intense, and having only 12 seats inside a small 12 x 15 ft. room, will\u00a0definitely\u00a0increase what the audience is feeling, to say the least!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s some info from pinkbananatheatre.com:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Tape<\/em>, set entirely in a hotel room in Milwaukee, brings together old high school friends Vince, a bad\u2010tempered volunteer fireman, and Jon, an up-and-coming filmmaker. After reminiscing over old times, the conversation &#8211; and their friendship &#8211; turn nasty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tape<\/em>, By Stephen Belber<br \/>\n<\/strong>November 8 &#8211; 21, 2010<br \/>\nat the Best Western Inn Towne Hotel, Downtown Milwaukee<br \/>\n<strong><em>Reservations only; seating is extremely limited! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Directed by Juanita Schuelke and Fjosh Redbeard<br \/>\nFeaturing Rob Maass, Matt Kemple and Gwen Zupan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We began rehearsals a few weeks ago, and the show is really coming together. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great script, and Stephen Belber&#8217;s writing is deep and profound &#8211; a real &#8220;actors play&#8221;. \u00a0There are so many levels of power and corruption that seep into the characters of Vince and Jon, it has truly been a joy to work on this show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/www.pinkbananatheatre.com  \">www.pinkbananatheatre.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a project I have been looking forward to for a very long time: Tape by StephenBelber. The play&#8217;s focus is controversial, intense, violent, and very exciting! \u00a0I&#8217;ll be playing Vince, a bad\u2010tempered, drug-dealing volunteer fireman &#8211; a very different character from anything I&#8217;ve played before. Another aspect of this show is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[30,60,66,68,69],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre-2","tag-acting","tag-pink-banana-theatre","tag-stephen-belber","tag-tape","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}