{"id":130,"date":"2009-10-12T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/absurd\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T14:59:33","slug":"absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/blog\/absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"ETC: Absurd, absurd! (12-16 Oct &#8217;10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Absurd, absurd!<br \/><\/strong>12th-16th October at 20.00.<br \/>Studio Theatre, rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Brussels<\/p>\n<p>ETCetera&#8217;s next multilingual production after &#8220;Fin de Si\u00e8cle&#8221; in 2009 is an evening of 3 plays dedicated to classic writers of the Absurd movement: unreal and real at the same time, and very funny.<\/p>\n<p>Pic-Nic, by Fernando Arrabal in Spanish, is set in the First World War trenches; Victoria Station, by Harold Pinter in English, is about a London minicab \u201cdispatcher\u201d and his driver; while La Cantatrice Chauve, by Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco in French, is set in the English suburbs in the 1950\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Each will have \u201csurtitles\u201d in the other 2 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The plays are directed by 3 of Brussels\u2019 most experienced directors (see over), and include some very established actors such as Eduardo Aladro-Vico, Martin Whitworth, Christine Marchand, and Brian Holland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/absurd.jpg\" alt=\"Absurd, absurd!\" width=\"360\" height=\"463\" align=\"Not Set\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeantheatreclub.eu\/\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,36,45,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2010-2011","category-etcetera","category-groups","category-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/absurd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3Lbx2-absurd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 11:01:49","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\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreinbrussels.com\/listings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}