{"id":1835,"date":"2015-03-18T08:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2015-03-18T08:31:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:31:36","slug":"the-women-of-cedar-creek-in-ojai-ca-april-12-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=1835","title":{"rendered":"The Women of Cedar Creek in Ojai, CA, April 12, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>at The Ojai Retreat, 160 Besant Rd, Ojai, CA 93023<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>April 12, 2015, Sunday, 6:45pm<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>(All donations to benefit The Ojai Retreat\u2019s new outdoor events center)<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<dl id=\"attachment_1803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 360px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Playbill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1803\" src=\"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Playbill-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Award-winning Play  in Ojai\" width=\"350\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Playbill-206x300.jpg 206w, http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Playbill-220x319.jpg 220w, http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Playbill.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cWhat you seek for half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it,\u00a0you become its prey.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Thoreau to Emerson<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This quote from Thoreau fits my play, <em>The Women of Cedar Creek,<\/em> and some American families everywhere. I wrote this play about how families often say and do terrible things to each another yet at the end of the day, gather and have dinner as though this was all completely normal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Catherine Ann Jones<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This comedy-drama family play is set in Texas in the mid-seventies. Three generations of Texas women come together to persuade their aging mother to leave Cedar Creek, her home of fifty years. Old ghosts and family secrets explode over a twenty-four hour period, exploring the love-hate relationships of family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Awarded the New York Drama League Award &amp; the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Award.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at The Ojai Retreat, 160 Besant Rd, Ojai, CA 93023 April 12, 2015, Sunday, 6:45pm (All donations to benefit The Ojai Retreat\u2019s new outdoor events center) \u201cWhat you seek for half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catherine-ann-jones","category-eventsworkshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}