{"id":367,"date":"2012-03-14T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=367"},"modified":"2021-08-13T19:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T00:05:52","slug":"behind-a-mask","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=367","title":{"rendered":"Behind a Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Behind-a-Mask-postcard1024_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Behind-a-Mask-postcard1024_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Behind-a-Mask-postcard1024_1.jpg 572w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Behind-a-Mask-postcard1024_1-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Behind-a-Mask-postcard1024_1-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Behind a Mask<\/em><\/strong><br>full-length play produced in 2004 at the Playwrights\u2019 Center<br>based on the 1866 novella* by Louisa May Alcott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before she became the celebrated author of <em>Little Women<\/em>, Louisa May Alcott (writing under a gender-neutral <em>nom-de-plume<\/em>) churned out lurid magazine fiction. Although her primary goal was to make money, this early work is very well-written. And some of it is surprisingly modern, featuring strong female characters who, instead of surrendering to fate, take matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Behind a Mask<\/em> \u2013 a story of love and deception, loaded with plot twists and populated by tormented characters \u2013 is generally considered the best of Alcott&#8217;s sensational potboilers. Its protagonist, Jean Muir, arrives in the Coventry household as a mere governess but soon takes command, making her social superiors dance to her tune. Is Jean pure evil, a <em>femme fatale<\/em>, a spider woman? Or is she simply doing what she has to do, as a Victorian woman of her social class, in order to survive? You be the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cast: 4M, 4F<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* never before, to the best of our knowledge, adapted for the theater<\/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\/MG_0035-min-min-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MG_0035-min-min-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1422\" width=\"428\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MG_0035-min-min-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MG_0035-min-min-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MG_0035-min-min-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MG_0035-min-min-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MG_0035-min-min-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind a Maskfull-length play produced in 2004 at the Playwrights\u2019 Centerbased on the 1866 novella* by Louisa May Alcott Before she became the celebrated author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (writing under a gender-neutral nom-de-plume) churned out lurid magazine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":75,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367"}],"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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions\/1423"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hardcovertheater.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}