{"id":1068,"date":"2017-09-01T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2017-09-01T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T16:05:49","slug":"ready-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/ready-to-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wela Mbusi<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Week five. Hooray!! The long wait has finally come to an end and the finality of it is solidified by the associate actors sharing their collective notes after our final run in the UK. Our spirits are buoyant but only because we know, that after the seemingly torturous, but necessary, ordeal of receiving notes from them, we will have ascended three thousand feet in two days towards another welcoming collective of practitioners and audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alas! The notes session proved to be the remedy we needed for the majority of this isolated rehearsal process, as they were very informative coming from an outside perspective.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was also comforting to know that every single one of them had gone through this the same artistic gauntlet as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A sense of ownership has been instilled in us having gone through this, and aptly reinforced by Martin, is the idea that what we created can only be understood and given by us with full conviction, as it is a testament of the best of ourselves as artists.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wela Mbusi Week five. Hooray!! The long wait has finally come to an end and the finality of it is solidified by the associate actors sharing their collective notes after our final run in the UK. Our spirits are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/ready-to-launch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2696,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47489,84479],"tags":[67547,47617,84483,84484,84479,84485,84482],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors-from-the-london-stage","category-measure-for-measure","tag-actors-from-the-london-stage","tag-anna-wright","tag-ben-eagle","tag-dominic-gerrard","tag-measure-for-measure","tag-peter-bray","tag-wela-mbusi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}