{"id":19398,"date":"2010-04-09T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=19398"},"modified":"2013-12-16T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:35:22","slug":"nau-theater-stages-the-battle-of-the-sexes-in-big-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theater-stages-the-battle-of-the-sexes-in-big-love\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Theater stages the battle of the sexes in &#8216;Big Love&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Mee\u2019s wild comedy\u00a0<em>Big Love<\/em>, directed by\u00a0<strong>Bob Yowell<\/strong>, professor of theater, will hit the stage April 16, 17 and 21-24 at 8 p.m. and April 18 and 25 at 2 p.m. in Northern Arizona University\u2019s Clifford E. White Theater.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c&#8217;<\/em>Big Love<em>&#8216;<\/em>\u00a0is a one-of-a-kind script.\u201d Yowell said. \u201cIt\u2019s too aggressive to be a romance and too poignant to be an all-out farce, but it speaks volumes on the complex subject of love. The NAU production is exciting, unpredictable and humorous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on Aeschylus\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Suppliant Maidens<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Big Love<\/em>\u00a0is a modern day battle of the sexes tale about 50 brides who flee 50 grooms to a marvelous villa on the coast of Italy. The play focuses on three of the betrothed couples.<\/p>\n<p>All characters will be played by NAU Theater students, including\u00a0<strong>Jenna Luckow<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Christina Forester,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Heather Vaughn, Caleb Reed,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Jesse Micelli<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Justin Hopper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $7 for students with an NAU ID, $11 for seniors, faculty and staff and $12 for adult community members. For tickets, call the NAU Central Ticket office at (928) 523-5661 or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/home.nau.edu\/cto\/\">www.nau.edu\/cto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theater-stages-the-battle-of-the-sexes-in-big-love\/\">Charles Mee\u2019s wild comedy\u00a0Big Love, directed by\u00a0Bob Yowell, professor of theater, will hit the stage April 16, 17 and 21-24 at 8 p.m. and April 18 and 25 at 2 p.m. in Northern Arizona University\u2019s Clifford E. White Theater. \u201c&#8217;Big Love&#8216;\u00a0is a one-of-a-kind script.\u201d Yowell said. \u201cIt\u2019s too aggressive to be a romance and too&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":19399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}