{"id":1360,"date":"2021-08-01T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1360"},"modified":"2021-08-13T19:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T00:57:47","slug":"the-sea-wolf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1360","title":{"rendered":"The Sea-Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/seawolf_banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/seawolf_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1361\" width=\"426\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/seawolf_banner.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/seawolf_banner-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/seawolf_banner-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>full-length play produced in 2005 at the Playwrights&#8217; Center<br>based on the 1904 novel* by Jack London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.<\/em><br>\u2013 Samuel Johnson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As any serious Jack London fan will attest, <em>The Sea-Wolf<\/em> is the best thing the author ever wrote. Not only is it a gripping adventure story, it\u2019s also a penetrating study of human behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The setting is a ship called the Ghost whose captain, Wolf Larsen, loves to drive his men to the point of mutiny so that he can have the pleasure of beating them into submission. But Larsen isn\u2019t just a brute \u2013 he\u2019s an intelligent, articulate nihilist whose actions are in perfect accord with his philosophy. When the Ghost rescues an educated gentleman from a shipwreck, Larsen at last has someone he can talk to. Then an attractive young woman comes on board, and things start to get <em>really<\/em> ugly\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cast: 8M, 1F<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* never before, to the best of our knowledge, adapted for the theater<br>\u2020 written but not directed by Steve Schroer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0341-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1454\" width=\"429\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0341-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0341-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0341-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0341.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>full-length play produced in 2005 at the Playwrights&#8217; Centerbased on the 1904 novel* by Jack London Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.\u2013 Samuel Johnson As any serious Jack London fan will attest, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=1360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1360\/revisions\/1455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}