{"id":1379,"date":"2011-09-20T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2012-04-04T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:41:10","slug":"extra-terrestrial-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Heart&#8217;s Tent&#8217; &#8211; a new play by Ben Okri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 2011- This month Martha is honoured to perform in the staged reading of a new piece by Booker-prize winner and one of Africa&#8217;s most prominent writers, the Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. &#8220;The Heart&#8217;s Tent is Broken&#8221; in on in the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden. Martha is also performing as Smellgha, the poetic boss of a couple of aliens in Martyn Dempsey&#8217;s comedy &#8220;The Extra-Terrestrials and the Park of the Golden Swing&#8221;. On in the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre in South London.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1855\" href=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?attachment_id=1855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1855\" title=\"IMG_1399\" src=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_13991-950x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_13991-950x633.jpg 950w, http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_13991-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1856\" href=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?attachment_id=1856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1856\" title=\"Martha Van Der Bly, 2011 \" src=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1390-590x885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1390-590x885.jpg 590w, http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1390-950x1425.jpg 950w, http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1390.jpg 1856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2011- This month Martha is honoured to perform in the staged reading of a new piece by Booker-prize winner and one of Africa&#8217;s most prominent writers, the Nigerian novelist Ben Okri. &#8220;The Heart&#8217;s Tent is Broken&#8221; in on in the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden. Martha is also performing as Smellgha, the poetic&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/?p=1379\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1399.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marthavanderbly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}