{"id":240,"date":"2016-01-08T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theatremuseum.wpengine.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2023-10-07T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T10:40:55","slug":"david-french-writing-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/david-french-writing-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David French: Writing Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>PAST EXHIBITION<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fall 2011<\/p>\n<p>NAC English Theatre in association with Theatre Museum Canada presented a retrospective exhibit about the life and work of one of Canada\u2019s most important playwrights, Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s David French (1939-2010), in conjunction with the production of his play <em>Salt-Water Moon<\/em>. Focusing on his five semi-autobiographical plays about the fictional Mercer family of Newfoundland, the exhibit combines rare artifacts, images and text to examine the history of French\u2019s darkly humorous slice-of-life dramas, and his far-reaching influence in the development of English Canadian theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by the National Arts Centre in association with Theatre Museum Canada<\/p>\n<p>This exhibit is currently available for touring to venues across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this option, please contact:<br \/>\nJudi Pearl<br \/>\nNational Arts Centre English Theatre<br \/>\n613-947-7000 ext. 537<br \/>\njudi.pearl@nac-cna.ca<\/p>\n<p>An online companion exhibit is also featured on the NAC&#8217;s educational website\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsalive.ca\/en\/eth\/playwright\/david-french\/\">ArtsAlive.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>PAST EXHIBITION<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fall 2011<\/p>\n<p>NAC English Theatre in association with Theatre Museum Canada presented a retrospective exhibit about the life and work of one of Canada\u2019s most important playwrights, Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s David French (1939-2010), in conjunction with the production of his play <em>Salt-Water Moon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatremuseum.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}