{"id":784,"date":"2011-04-02T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/test\/?p=784"},"modified":"2015-03-25T02:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T02:05:28","slug":"the-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"The Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 Actors: 1 Female (30s\/40s), 1 Male (30s\/50s)<br \/>\nRunning Time: 25 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>Kate has had enough. Ernie has brought enough auction junk home to fill a caboose in the west pasture. She throws his latest purchase at him and locks him out of the house.<\/p>\n<p>As he figures out a way to get back inside to the waiting dinner, they both discover that they&#8217;ve been avoiding something for way too long. This celebrated short play tackles how we keep going when no-one and nothing has lived up to our expectations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Auction<\/strong> has won many awards when presented in One Act Festivals. It is also a scene in the full-length <strong>West of the Third Meridian<\/strong>. (See Full Length Plays)<\/p>\n<p><em>Ernie: I went to this auction to get something for you<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kate: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need any dishes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ernie: Not the dishes. Something else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"reviewquote\">Winner of the 2004 Best Short Play Award from the Writer&#8217;s Guild of Alberta<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Actors: 1 Female (30s\/40s), 1 Male (30s\/50s) Running Time: 25 Minutes Kate has had enough. Ernie has brought enough auction junk home to fill a caboose in the west pasture. She throws his latest purchase at him and locks him out of the house. As he figures out a way to get back inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays","category-short"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinadavies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}