{"id":2769,"date":"2022-02-12T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2022-02-17T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:27:40","slug":"aus-postpones-spring-2022-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/02\/12\/aus-postpones-spring-2022-play\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS postpones spring 2022 play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Shaikha Majid&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The play originally planned for spring 2022 will be postponed until fall 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, American University of Sharjah associate professor and Performing Arts Program Coordinator Anthony Tassa said in an interview on Feb. 10.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to postpone the event comes in light of increasing Covid cases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was most logical given that we may be losing performers to positive results regularly, but it will not negatively affect our program or work,\u201d Tassa said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the program is arranging a workshop presentation before spring break in March where students would play a piece based on myths and traditions of Bedouin culture in the United Arab Emirates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will be presented in a workshop format, so students can still experience the live presentation before an audience,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tassa said that this kind of piece would benefit students by exploring a theatre style called immersive ensemble devised culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that using this theme could allow students to represent the UAE at the 2023 June Prague Quadrennial, the world\u2019s largest festival theatre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Performing Arts Program at AUS organizes plays every semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shaikha Majid&nbsp; The play originally planned for spring 2022 will be postponed until fall 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, American University of Sharjah associate professor and Performing Arts Program Coordinator Anthony Tassa said in an interview on Feb. 10.&nbsp; The decision to postpone the event comes in light of increasing Covid cases.&nbsp; \u201cThis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22,33,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-2769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-aus","10":"tag-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}