{"id":1727,"date":"2009-05-04T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2017-06-20T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T15:13:39","slug":"stop-kiss-is-more-than-meets-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2009\/05\/04\/stop-kiss-is-more-than-meets-the-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"“Stop Kiss” is more than meets the eye"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charlotte Goodrich (left) and Brittany Hacket portray Callie and Sara in the upcoming production of "Stop Kiss" written by American playwright Diana Son. The play will debut May 8 in the Blair Hall Theatre in Building 2. --contributed photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cStop Kiss\u201d looks to serve a larger purpose than what may be on the surface, according to its director Gina Neuerer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love that we do Shakespeare; that we do classic Greek, I love what we usually do. But we hadn\u2019t been attacking contemporary issues,\u201d Neuerer said. \u201cSo, if we\u2019re not doing contemporary issues, how do we get contemporary people to come to our show? How do we get the students to come to our show?\u201d<\/p>\n

Neuerer said before the season began she read approximately 50 contemporary plays until she found the right one.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf all the scripts that I\u2019d read, (\u201cStop Kiss\u201d) touched me. This was a love story. This is two people who fall in love and decide to take a chance in their life,\u201d Neuerer said. \u201cI think that all of us today, are dealing with self-identity issues\u2026 and within this play, these women are trying to decide, \u2018Who am I? What do I want? Do I like my job? Do I like my relationships? Do I like where I am in my life?\u2019 Sound familiar?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStop Kiss\u201d was written by American playwright Diana Son in 1998, who\u2019s known for her work on \u201cLaw and Order: Criminal Intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The play is also Neuerer\u2019s directorial debut, something she has wanted to do for a long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it\u2019s the whole putting it together,\u201d said Neuerer, who currently is the interim Chair of Theatre and Dance department. \u201cSomeone who stands back and gets a view of the whole process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sinclair exclusive cast includes Brittany Hackett, a theatre performance major, who will be playing Sara.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rehearsal process has been really intimate because the script is very realistic,\u201d Hackett said.<\/p>\n

The issues that are portrayed in the play is what made Hackett jump at the opportunity to be in it, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always felt really strongly that theatre is a place where you really can explore contemporary issues, you know, put it all out there and let people decide what they think about it,\u201d Hackett said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to entertain audiences, I want to make them think and make them feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neuerer hopes the play affects the audience in a way that would change the way they view the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important step for this department to do a contemporary piece of theatre that will talk to contemporary audiences and hopefully change some people\u2019s lives. Because that\u2019s what\u2019s important to Diane Son; that our lives are constantly changing,\u201d Neuerer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cStop Kiss\u201d looks to serve a larger purpose than what may be on the surface, according to its director Gina Neuerer. \u201cI love that we do Shakespeare; that we do classic Greek, I love what we usually do. But we hadn\u2019t been attacking contemporary issues,\u201d Neuerer said. \u201cSo, if we\u2019re not doing contemporary issues, how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[425,428,426,1959,427,424],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-stop-kiss","tag-blair-hall","tag-diana-son","tag-kamari-stevens","tag-play","tag-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-rR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15405,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/15405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}