{"id":11,"date":"2009-01-22T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.arts.ubc.ca\/wordpressmu\/theatre\/2009\/01\/22\/the-heart-of-a-theatre\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:43:50","slug":"the-heart-of-a-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/2009\/01\/22\/the-heart-of-a-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of a Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at\u00a0<a title=\"Theatre Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/stage\/theatreblog\">The Guardian&#8217;s Theatre blog<\/a>, actor and writer Molly Flatt posts a short\u00a0<a title=\"Theatre Bars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/stage\/theatreblog\/2009\/jan\/22\/theatre-bars-drink\">piece<\/a> on British theatres and their accompanying bars:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bar has always been at the heart of a theatre. Not so long ago, it was most likely to be a humble, unlovely little corner where you would anaesthetise the pain of the third act with a watery ale, or hang around in the hope of getting a sweaty handshake from a track-suited off-duty thesp. It may have been a functional, haphazardly stocked meeting place, but the company was lively, local and usually worth a hangover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our own unlovely little corner of the Frederic Wood remains dry most of the time (liquor-licensing on campus is not for the faint of heart!) but it definitely makes intermissions and after-show discussion a little warmer if there is a glass of wine to be had. What do you like to see in a bar at a theatre? Let us know in the comments what your favourite theatre bar is either in Vancouver or beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons attending our current production of\u00a0<a title=\"Medea by Euripides, presented by Theatre at UBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatre.ubc.ca\/medea\/index.shtml\">Medea<\/a> (opening tonight at the Telus Studio Theatre in the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts!) will be able to enjoy a well-stocked bar as the Chan Centre runs their libation-dispensing operation year round. So come to the Chan and enjoy a drink before the show.See you there and cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at\u00a0The Guardian&#8217;s Theatre blog, actor and writer Molly Flatt posts a short\u00a0piece on British theatres and their accompanying bars: The bar has always been at the heart of a theatre. Not so long ago, it was most likely to be a humble, unlovely little corner where you would anaesthetise the pain of the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6635,1,9109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","category-uncategorized","category-vancouver-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}