{"id":71776,"date":"2025-12-04T23:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71776\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:41:29","slug":"eckerd-community-enjoys-heartfelt-comedy-in-semesters-final-theatre-production-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71776\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd community enjoys heartfelt comedy in semester\u2019s final theatre production &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A play by Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest follows two men: Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. They both live double lives, identifying as a man named Ernest in order to seek out romance. Yet, when Jack and Algernon fall in love with two different women, they run into trouble using the same alias. The play is satirical in nature and focuses on the strange norms held by the upper class during the Victorian era.<\/p>\n<p>The Eckerd production in four showings Nov. 19\u201322 in Bininger Theatre was directed by Technical Director Rick Tetrault and offered students the opportunity to enjoy the play, whether as actors or spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Rodman, a first-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/theatre\/theatre-and-musical-theatre-bfa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">musical theatre student<\/a> from East Falmouth, Massachusetts, had landed the role of Jack and was eager to perform. After two years at Eckerd College, he\u2019ll go on to study for two years at Circle in the Square in New York City, as part of Eckerd\u2019s unique Bachelor of Fine Arts program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my first time doing a show with Eckerd and it was a blast,\u201d Jonathan says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A play by Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest follows two men: Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-71776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}