{"id":291,"date":"2014-10-18T05:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2022-07-16T00:21:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:21:17","slug":"photos-from-home-of-the-great-pecan-in-east-london-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/photos-from-home-of-the-great-pecan-in-east-london-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from &#8220;Home of the Great Pecan&#8221; in East London, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"home_of_great_pecan_east_london_01\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_01.jpg\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\"><\/a>2 scenes from&nbsp;<em><strong>Home of the Great Pecan<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;were performed in The Alexander Playhouse Eastern Cape High School Drama Festival in East London, South Africa as an entry from Selborne Primary and Selborne College in June, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Charlton Pike directed the students, including her son, Duncan (with dark hair in the photos). They made it into the last round where 3 plays went before the final&nbsp;adjudicator, who was <a title=\"Deon Opperman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3213782\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deon Opperman<\/a>. They didn&#8217;t place first but got big accolades from Mr. Opperman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"home_of_great_pecan_east_london_02\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_02.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"285\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-294 aligncenter\" alt=\"home_of_great_pecan_east_london_03\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_03.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_03.jpg 960w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_03-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-295 aligncenter\" alt=\"home_of_great_pecan_east_london_04\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_04.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_04.jpg 960w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_04-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-296 aligncenter\" alt=\"home_of_great_pecan_east_london_05\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_05.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_05.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home_of_great_pecan_east_london_05-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>To license the full-length Texas comedy, <strong>Home of the Great Pecan <\/strong>(by Stephen Bittrich) which has been described as <strong>Great Tuna<\/strong> meets <strong>Plan Nine from Outer Space<\/strong>, go to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayplaypub.com\/the-plays\/home-of-the-great-pecan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway Play Publishing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 scenes from&nbsp;Home of the Great Pecan&nbsp;were performed in The Alexander Playhouse Eastern Cape High School Drama Festival in East London, South Africa as an entry from Selborne Primary and Selborne College in June, 2013. Joan Charlton Pike directed the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/photos-from-home-of-the-great-pecan-in-east-london-south-africa\/\" 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":[41,63,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-length-play","category-home-of-the-great-pecan","category-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}