{"id":13043,"date":"2010-08-11T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2010-08-11T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:50:56","slug":"jet-alum-randall-david-cooks-%e2%80%98sake-with-the-haiku-geisha%e2%80%99-returns-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/11\/jet-alum-randall-david-cooks-%e2%80%98sake-with-the-haiku-geisha%e2%80%99-returns-to-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alum Randall David Cook&#8217;s \u2018Sake with the Haiku Geisha\u2019 Returns to NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sake-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13044\" title=\"Sake Poster\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sake-Poster-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"'Sake with the Haiku Geisha' poster, designed by JETAA NY alum Amber Liang.\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sake-Poster-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sake-Poster.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>By <a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>JQ Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:magazine@jetaany.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those who missed the original Off Broadway run of the critically acclaimed play <em>Sake with the Haiku Geisha<\/em> are in for a treat. As part of its annual national conference, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetalumni.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JET Alumni Association<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York chapter<\/a>, 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>, will revive the play for a one night only\u00a0performance on Friday, Aug. 13 at Manhattan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiaf.org\/rental\/tinker-auditorium.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tinker Auditorium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Penned by playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayworld.com\/people\/?personid=15227\" target=\"_blank\">Randall David Cook<\/a> and featuring a cast that includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m7d30-Benefit-a-Yakuza-this-Saturday\">Jun Kim<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurotamakikaku.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kurotama Kikaku Company<\/a>, the\u00a0work\u00a0was\u00a0debuted by the Gotham Stage Company in 2006 as an outgrowth of <em>Sushi and Scones<\/em>, an earlier one-act play written by Cook for the UK\u2019s Dawlish Arts Festival and later produced by BBC Radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNinety percent of the play is based on true stories, and many of the lines were taken verbatim from their subjects,&#8221; explained Cook.\u00a0&#8220;The most outrageous things I dared not dream up; they happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m8d11-Sake-with-the-Haiku-Geisha-returns-for-encore-performance\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Those who missed the original Off Broadway run of the critically acclaimed play Sake with the Haiku Geisha are in for a treat. As part of its annual national conference, the JET Alumni Association\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3on","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13046,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions\/13046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}