{"id":565,"date":"2021-03-19T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/?p=565"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:31:44","slug":"short-notices-the-new-mrs-meghan-hewitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/2021\/03\/19\/short-notices-the-new-mrs-meghan-hewitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Notices &#8211; The New Mrs Meghan Hewitt In &#8216;The Play&#8217;s The Thing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Ancient-Greek-Theater-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1470\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6331505179768433;width:558px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Ancient-Greek-Theater-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Ancient-Greek-Theater-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Ancient-Greek-Theater-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Ancient-Greek-Theater.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roman depiction of Greek theatrical masks (prosopa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yanks, with a very few honourable exceptions, have never been any good at acting or appreciating a fine theatrical performance, preferring crude, stereotypical caricatures with all the subtlety, human warmth and nuance of Kabuki or the prosopa of Thalia and Melpomene, or some cartoon animations \u2013 which is why their cinema is so awful. It is easy to see how the performance of the new Mrs Meghan Hewitt, wooden and mechanical as it was, can convince a nation that knows nothing of more authentic veracity than Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Modern-Kabuki-Mask.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1473\" style=\"width:465px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Modern-Kabuki-Mask.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Modern-Kabuki-Mask-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Modern-Kabuki-Mask-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/03\/Modern-Kabuki-Mask-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Modern Japanese Kabuki Mask (with Pinocchio nose)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/category\/short-notices\/page\/26\/\" target=\"_blank\">Short Notices &#8211; What They Are<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yanks, with a very few honourable exceptions, have never been any good at acting or appreciating a fine theatrical performance, preferring crude, stereotypical caricatures with all the subtlety, human warmth and nuance of Kabuki or the prosopa of Thalia and Melpomene, or some cartoon animations \u2013 which is why their cinema is so awful. It is easy to see how the performance of the new Mrs Meghan Hewitt, wooden and mechanical as it was, can convince a nation that knows nothing of more authentic veracity than Mickey Mouse. Short Notices &#8211; What They Are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-short-notices","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}