{"id":211,"date":"2014-10-03T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=211"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:51:25","slug":"a-happy-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"A Happy Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Whistle Stop<\/em> is an absurd piece of physical theatre about the meeting of two strangers. However, alongside their awkward, flirty chatter, the audiences are given explicit access to their interior monologues. These hilarious monologues are acted out with some brilliant physical theatre, where bodies climb across bodies in thoughts and then leap back into respectable positions of distance for their actual conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The interaction between the two would-be love birds is familiar: we laugh because we recognise the blundering things they say to each other and the wild imagining of future relationships. The whistling forms a pattern of desire throughout the play, it marks unspoken things, it draws attention to puckered lips.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue (internal and external) is cleverly written, with fantastical images, and use of just the bench on stage as a prop is brilliant and their movement is full of humour. Whistle Stop is a fantastic, insightful piece of theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Ameera Patel, writer and half of the cast, weaves a tale of insecurity, doubt and lust in <em>Whistle Stop<\/em> that won her several awards in Grahamstown this year. Well deserved, be sure to watch this show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistle Stop is an absurd piece of physical theatre about the meeting of two strangers. However, alongside their awkward, flirty chatter, the audiences are given explicit access to their interior &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=211\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[61,647,776,923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}