{"id":5482,"date":"2013-01-22T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2013-01-22T09:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:21:37","slug":"that-face-explores-what-it-means-to-be-part-of-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/01\/22\/that-face-explores-what-it-means-to-be-part-of-a-family\/","title":{"rendered":"That Face<\/em> explores what it means to be part of a family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director Judy Treloar hopes\u00a0That Face<\/em> will grab audiences the same way it grabbed her when she first saw the play. That was in New Zealand, three years ago. After seeing the play, she was so moved by it that she went and bought the script.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took the script back to where I was staying,\u201d says Treloar. \u201cI read it. I couldn\u2019t sleep. I just thought it was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Treloar, part of what makes the play so great is that it doesn\u2019t spell things out for the audience, and makes them come to their own conclusions.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople want to talk about it after watching it,\u201d she says. \u201cIt leaves a lot of questions. It doesn\u2019t answer everything. This play makes people think.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Face<\/em> is the story of a dysfunctional family. And considering that we are all members of a family, and every family has stories and conflicts, audience members may find their family has elements in common with the family in the play.<\/p>\n

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This is no normal family, it\u2019s the dysfunctional family of That Face (photo by David Lowes).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the story, there is a mother, who is very close to her son; a daughter, who pushed away from her family; and a father, who has to come in to rescue everything during a crisis. The play begins with the daughter and her friends torturing and hazing fellow students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some people in the world that think every family is dysfunctional,\u201d says Treloar. \u201cI mean, I look at my family\u00c9 well, I have an ordinary family. Maybe you want to think about your family and how normal it is, too. That\u2019s what we want people to do. Think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actress Kirsten Van Ritzen, who plays Martha, the mother, says audiences will be able to relate to this play because of the family dynamics, whether or not their family is as dysfunctional as the one in That Face.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully their family\u2019s experience is not extreme,\u201d says Van Ritzen, \u201cbut they can identify with some of the control issues and some of the emotional issues. It\u2019s a very emotional and dramatic work, where you see how everyone needs each other and at the same time pushes each other away.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Face<\/em> is a very good chance for people to look at their own families. This play not only helps us understand what it means to be part of a family but also makes people think what family is for.<\/p>\n

That Face
\n<\/em>January 17-February 2
\nLangham Court Theatre
\nlanghamtheatre.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Judy Treloar hopes\u00a0That Face will grab audiences the same way it grabbed her when she first saw the play. That was in New Zealand, three years ago. After seeing the play, she was so moved by it that she went and bought the script. \u201cI took the script back to where I was staying,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-9-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}