{"id":12992,"date":"2010-08-06T23:12:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12992"},"modified":"2010-08-06T23:12:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T03:12:37","slug":"event-sake-with-the-haiku-geisha-reading-august-13-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/06\/event-sake-with-the-haiku-geisha-reading-august-13-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Event:  &#8220;Sake With the Haiku Geisha&#8221; reading, August 13 (NYC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/\">JET ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK (JETAA NY)<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with support from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/en\/html\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Consulate General of Japan in New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Presents<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Special Play Reading of critically acclaimed Off Broadway Play<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/reviews\/randall-david-cooks-sake-with-the-haiku-geisha\/\"><strong>SAKE WITH THE HAIKU GEISHA<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12993\" style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sake-4-copy-733x1024.jpghttp:\/\/jetaany.org\/2010\/08\/06\/sake-with-the-haiku-geisha-play-reading\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12993\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12993\" title=\"sake-4-copy-733x1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sake-4-copy-733x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sake-4-copy-733x1024.jpg 733w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sake-4-copy-733x1024-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-12993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic by JET alum Amber Liang<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> The JET Alumni Association of New York<\/strong> is pleased to present a limited one-night reading of the critically acclaimed play \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/reviews\/randall-david-cooks-sake-with-the-haiku-geisha\/\"><strong>Sake with the Haiku Geisha<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d written by JET alumnus and playwright, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?s=randall+david+cook\">Randall David Cook<\/a><\/strong> (<strong>Fukui-ken, 1991-93<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Friday, August 13<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start time:<\/strong> 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiaf.org\/rental\/tinker-auditorium.shtml\">Tinker Auditorium<\/a> (between Park &amp; Madison Aves.) <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=22+East+60th+Street,+NYC&amp;sll=40.813783,-73.961526&amp;sspn=0.006788,0.013626&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=22+E+60th+St,+New+York,+10065&amp;z=16\">22 E 60th St<\/a>, New York, NY 10065, (212) 355-6100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$5 in advance ($10 at the door) for JET alumni<\/li>\n<li>$10 in advance ($15 at the door) for Friends of JET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/2010\/08\/06\/sake-with-the-haiku-geisha-play-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> TO PURCHASE TICKETS ON-LINE VIA PAYPAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/reviews\/randall-david-cooks-sake-with-the-haiku-geisha\/\"><strong>Sake with the Haiku Geisha<\/strong><\/a>\u201d premiered Off-Broadway  in 2006 and was based on the collective experiences of three JETs who  were placed in Fukui-ken from 1991-1993: an American from South  Carolina, a Canadian from Nova Scotia and an English woman from Devon.  The structure of the play is inspired by the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noh\">Noh<\/a> play: an opening ceremony, five acts (each of which uses a different  speaker and a spirit or ghost), and a closing ceremony. The show starts  on at a farewell party for the visiting JETS, and first three acts are  told from the perspective of the visiting JETs, and then the tables  turn, and the final two acts are told from the perspective of two  Japanese: the supervisor of the Canadian JET, and the geisha\u2019s story,  which closes out the play.<\/p>\n<p>The first act, \u201c<strong>Sushi and Scones<\/strong>\u201d was a finalist in five major festivals in the USA and England, won the \u201c<strong>Best Play<\/strong>\u201d award at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.setc.org\/\"><em>Southeastern Playwrights Conference<\/em><\/a><\/strong> and was taped and broadcast by as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/devon\/content\/articles\/2005\/12\/20\/sushi_and_scones_feature.shtml\"><em><strong>B<\/strong><strong>BC radio play<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>in late 2005.  See a full review of the play in the <a href=\"http:\/\/theater.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/18\/theater\/reviews\/18sake.html\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is being organized in cooperation with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/en\/html\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Consulate General of Japan in New York<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JET ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK (JETAA NY) with support from the Consulate General of Japan in New York Presents A Special Play Reading of critically acclaimed Off Broadway Play SAKE WITH THE HAIKU GEISHA The JET Alumni Association of New York is pleased to present a limited one-night reading of the critically acclaimed play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,53,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-events","category-jetaa-chapters","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3ny","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12995,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions\/12995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}