{"id":108,"date":"2009-01-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/atc-oscar-and-the-pink-lady-19-30-jan-2009\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T16:13:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:13:05","slug":"atc-oscar-and-the-pink-lady-19-30-jan-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/atc-oscar-and-the-pink-lady-19-30-jan-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"ATC: Oscar and the Lady in Pink (19-30 Jan 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;\">Oscar and the Lady in Pink<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;\">The Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem 69A, 1030 Brussels<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9.5pt; font-weight: bold;\">19-23 &amp; 26-30 Jan 2010 at\u00a08pm<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;\">\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;\">This poignant and funny story follows the friendship between Oscar, a 10-year old leukemia patient who lives in a hospital, and &#8220;Pink Lady&#8221; Granny Rose, former lady wrestler and hospital volunteer. The course of their friendship, including Granny Rose&#8217;s wrestling reminiscences and her advice to Oscar about his relations with hospital friends, forms the substance of Oscar and the Lady in Pink. Originally a short novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, prolific French author and playwright, the text was transformed into a long monologue for the theatre several years ago, and is currently being made into a film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;\">Following the BATS production in Antwerp last March, by popular request the ATC now brings Oscar to Brussels, directed by Malinda Coleman and performed as a monologue, a veritable tour-de-force, by Ruth England.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atc-brussels.com\/images\/stories\/oscar.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar and the Lady in Pink\" width=\"313\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,28,45,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-2010","category-atc-groups","category-groups","category-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Lbx2-1K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 07:47:37","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}