{"id":243,"date":"2011-02-11T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2019-09-03T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:48:07","slug":"testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the biggest challenge for any writer is when they actually hear their words spoken by another &#8211; and the first time particularly so!\u00a0 So when Roslyn\u2019s play\u00a0The Test\u00a0was chosen as one of the top 110 plays in the Sydney Short + Sweet Festival, we were all on the edge of our seats in sympathy for our resident artistic type.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only the biggest short play festival in the world &#8211; thousands of playwrights from various countries submitted their work &#8211; so no pressure at all!\u00a0 The time limit for each production is ten minutes and writers were asked to address big themes in that window.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.shortandsweet.org\/shortsweet-theatre\/sydney\/top-110-newtown-theatre\/top-110-newtown-theatre-week-5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shortandsweet.org\/shortsweet-theatre\/sydney\/top-110-newtown-theatre\/top-110-newtown-theatre-week-5\">Roslyn\u2019s play was directed by Katie Gompertz and performed by Catherine Shepherd in the fifth week of the festival.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching the performance was exciting and terrifying &#8211; I don&#8217;t think any writer realises just how much of themselves they bare to the audience until your words come out of a stranger&#8217;s mouth\u201d, Roslyn said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Ros from all the team &#8211; and we\u2019d definitely recommend an Irish coffee on such an occasion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the biggest challenge for any writer is when they actually hear their words spoken by another &#8211; and the first time particularly so!\u00a0 So when Roslyn\u2019s play\u00a0The Test\u00a0was chosen as one of the top 110 plays in the Sydney Short + Sweet Festival, we were all on the edge of our seats in sympathy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thinking","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}