{"id":4931,"date":"2009-03-25T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2009-03-25T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:41:03","slug":"be-aggressive-still-life-with-pom-poms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4931","title":{"rendered":"Be Aggressive: Still Life With Pom Poms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/beaggressive1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/beaggressive1.jpg','popup','width=640,height=427,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/beaggressive1-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Beaggressive1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new play about cheerleaders opens at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvillagearts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Village Arts Theatre<\/a><\/strong> on April 4, 2009. <strong><em>Be Aggressive<\/em><\/strong>, by <strong>Annie Weisman<\/strong>, is the story of Laura, a 17-year-old cheerleader whose life turns around when her mother is killed in a car accident, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dramatists.com\/cgi-bin\/db\/single.asp?key=3124\" target=\"_blank\">Dramatists.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . she is thrust into the role of caregiver for her precocious younger sister, Hannah, and her brittle father, Phil. Escape comes in the form of a ferocious fellow cheerleader. Leslie has a brochure about the Spirit Institute of the South, a two-week intensive where they can learn real cheer, the kind with Bible belt intensity. All they need is two weeks and a thousand bucks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We won&#8217;t tell you the rest except to say that the story takes place in &#8220;Vista Del Sol&#8221; which most will recognize as San Diego. The play is directed by Kristianne Kurner and features NVA ensemble members <strong>Dana Case<\/strong>, <strong>Amanda Morrow<\/strong>, <strong>Daren Scott<\/strong>, <strong>Amanda Sitton<\/strong> and <strong>Rachael VanWormer<\/strong> with <strong>Caitlin Kunkle<\/strong>, <strong>Rachel Robinson<\/strong> and <strong>Alyssa Schindler.<\/p>\n<p>Be Agressive<\/strong> runs April 4 to 26, 2009 nightly at 8 PM Thursday through Sunday with a matinee on Saturday at 3 PM <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sabo.seatadvisor.com\/sabo\/servlets\/EventSearch?presenter=NVAT&amp;event=BA\" target=\"_blank\">click here for tickets<\/a><\/strong>. (Pay what you want previews are April 2 and 3)<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvillagearts.org\/onstage.php\" target=\"_blank\">New Village Arts Theatre<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new play about cheerleaders opens at the New Village Arts Theatre on April 4, 2009. Be Aggressive, by Annie Weisman, is the story of Laura, a 17-year-old cheerleader whose life turns around when her mother is killed in a car accident, according to Dramatists.com. . . . she is thrust into the role of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}