{"id":243,"date":"2010-06-10T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2013-12-08T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:29:58","slug":"another-reading-of-bittrich-play-the-acquisition-at-the-drilling-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/another-reading-of-bittrich-play-the-acquisition-at-the-drilling-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Reading of Bittrich Play \u2013 \u201cThe Acquisition\u201d \u2013 at The Drilling Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reading of my play in development, <em><strong>The Acquisition<\/strong><\/em>, will be presented at <a title=\"The Drilling Company Theater\" href=\"http:\/\/drillingcompany.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Drilling Company<\/a> with the following cast:<\/p>\n<p>Erin Mallon as Julia Hightower, Elizabeth Norment as Isabelle \/ Mrs. Hightower \/ Sally \/ Lady Woolcock, John Golaszewski as James Hightower \/ Jean Legard \/ Charles Hightower \/ Captain Sinclair, Kendall Rileigh as Mary Dunning \/ Anna Worthington, Stephen BIttrich as William Ainsworth <em>(I wanted to play this time!)<\/em>, and John Wiggins as Mr. Hightower \/ Colonel Blackburn.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably the best play I ever wrote. I hope it gets produced some day. The costume budget is a challenge. \u00a0I think the sets can be representative, but it would be great to have cool costumes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Acquisition_flier2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83\" alt=\"Acquisition_flier2\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Acquisition_flier2.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Acquisition_flier2.jpg 399w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Acquisition_flier2-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Acquisition_flier2-306x300.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reading of my play in development, The Acquisition, will be presented at The Drilling Company with the following cast: Erin Mallon as Julia Hightower, Elizabeth Norment as Isabelle \/ Mrs. Hightower \/ Sally \/ Lady Woolcock, John Golaszewski as&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/another-reading-of-bittrich-play-the-acquisition-at-the-drilling-company\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,45,5],"tags":[179,178,50,160,180,181,80,16,18,42,46,9,393,391],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catch-my-show","category-full-length-play","category-the-acquisition","category-theatre","tag-elizabeth-norment","tag-erin-mallon","tag-full-length","tag-jane-austen-period-play","tag-john-golaszewski","tag-john-wiggins","tag-kendall-rileigh","tag-new-york-city","tag-off-off-broadway","tag-playwright","tag-regency-era","tag-stephen-bittrich","tag-the-acquisition","tag-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}