{"id":781,"date":"2011-04-02T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/test\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:29:57","slug":"west-of-the-3rd-meridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"West of the 3rd Meridian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 Actors: 1 Female (plays multiple ages), 1 Male (plays multiple ages)<br \/>\nOne Act<br \/>\nRunning Time: 95 Minutes<\/p>\n<p><strong>meridian<\/strong>: <em>n. &amp; a. circle passing through celestial poles and zenith of any place on earth&#8217;s surface; corresponding line on a map; point at which sun or star attains highest altitude; prime, full splendour<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meridian is a prairie ghost story. It is a two-actor play set in a farmhouse on the edge of the prairie, which is also the central character of the story. Moments keep replaying in the space, the audience taken on a backwards progression in time. The play tackles the ideas of expectation, loss and haunting. West of the third meridian is a physical location. Rural sites are identified with a series of locators, one of which is the site&#8217;s relation to the meridians. The meridian is also the pinnacle, the best, the highest point of a star. This play is populated with characters that haunt a location full of raised and lowered expectations and who find softness in falling just a bit short.<\/p>\n<h2>REVIEWS<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>A strong piece of work<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><em>See Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Highly Recommended!&#8221; <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>CBC<\/em><em> Radio One <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;Proves that no matter whether Michael Jackson or Al Jolson is playing the teen hits of your day, the human heart is the same old organ.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Edmonton<\/em><em> Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Actors: 1 Female (plays multiple ages), 1 Male (plays multiple ages) One Act Running Time: 95 Minutes meridian: n. &amp; a. circle passing through celestial poles and zenith of any place on earth&#8217;s surface; corresponding line on a map; point at which sun or star attains highest altitude; prime, full splendour Meridian is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-length","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}