{"id":5199,"date":"2012-01-10T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2012-01-02T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T20:39:30","slug":"spotlight-no-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/01\/spotlight-no-child\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOTLIGHT: No Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5200\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NoChildSpot122911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NoChildSpot122911.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"NoChildSpot122911\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NoChildSpot122911.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NoChildSpot122911-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nilaja Sun in No Child.\tPhoto courtesy of Playmakers Repertory Company <\/figcaption><\/figure>Inspired by her own experiences as a theater teacher in some of the rowdiest schools in New York, Nilaja Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one-woman play No Child tells the story of a teacher trying to lead a group of students through a performance of the 1988 play <em>Our Country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Good<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><em>No Child<\/em>, directed by Hal Brooks, takes place at the fictional Malcolm X High School, and for 65 minutes Sun introduces the audience to a wide array of characters, from sassy students to an idealistic new teacher, all lovable in their own quirky way and full of plenty of wit to elicit more than a laugh or two.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The play\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s title refers to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Child Left Behind\u00e2\u20ac\u009d act created by the Bush administration, and it gives viewers a glimpse into America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s school system as encountered by Sun: a place full of hope and hopelessness, failure and success and overall love. <\/p>\n<p>The play runs Jan. 11-15 at the <strong>Kenan Theater in the Center for Dramatic Arts<\/strong> at UNC. Tickets range from $10 to $35. Visit playmakersrep.org for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by her own experiences as a theater teacher in some of the rowdiest schools in New York, Nilaja Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one-woman play No Child tells the story of a teacher trying to lead a group of students through a performance of the 1988 play Our Country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Good. No Child, directed by Hal Brooks, takes place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}