{"id":193069,"date":"2024-07-29T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=193069"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:53:32","slug":"for-liberties-john-cassavetes-tennessee-williams-and-beautiful-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=193069","title":{"rendered":"For Liberties: John Cassavetes, Tennessee Williams, and Beautiful Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/images-w1400-e1722029153940.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-193071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/images-w1400-e1722029153940.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/images-w1400-e1722029153940-200x107.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/images-w1400-e1722029153940-400x214.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/images-w1400-e1722029153940-100x54.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMy next article for my <a href=\"https:\/\/libertiesjournal.com\/author\/sheila-omalley\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Movies Before Breakfast column at Liberties Journal<\/a> is one I&#8217;ve wanted to write for years: how John Cassavetes\u2019 <i>Opening Night<\/i> and Tennessee Williams\u2019 <i>The Two-Character Play<\/i> are the same work of art to me &#8211; in dialogue with each other and with me. Sometimes you need years to understand your own life, how personal associations and memories loop things together, and you&#8217;re not sure how or why. Happy to pay tribute to Regina Bartkoff and Charlie Schich&#8217;s unforgettable production of <i>Two-Character Play<\/i> (wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=82540\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">way back when<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><big><a href=\"https:\/\/libertiesjournal.com\/online-articles\/john-cassavetes-tennessee-williams-and-beautiful-insanity\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Cassavetes, Tennessee Williams, and Intelligent Insanity<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My next article for my Movies Before Breakfast column at Liberties Journal is one I&#8217;ve wanted to write for years: how John Cassavetes\u2019 Opening Night and Tennessee Williams\u2019 The Two-Character Play are the same work of art to me &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=193069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16],"tags":[195,550,2708,1259,190,1774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193073,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193069\/revisions\/193073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}