{"id":24097,"date":"2020-10-23T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/23\/the-nepalese-play-letting-the-crowd-reimagine-the-ending-and-their-lives"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:00:03","slug":"the-nepalese-play-letting-the-crowd-reimagine-the-ending-and-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24097","title":{"rendered":"The Nepalese play letting the crowd reimagine the ending \u2013 and their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Familiar issues of discrimination and child marriage are being taken to the stage through interactive theatre in remote villages<\/p>\n<p>High in the mountains of a remote village in western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nepal\">Nepal<\/a> \u2013 a region once home to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2000\/jul\/06\/nepal.lukeharding\">fierce Maoist insurgency<\/a> \u2013 a large crowd is gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Women arrive with babies strapped to their fronts; children sit at the edge of the makeshift stage; local officials take up ad hoc seats. Not only is this the first time a play has been performed here \u2013 it is the first time a vehicle has ever reached the village. Whatever this travelling theatre group intends to perform, it is a spectacle not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/23\/the-nepalese-play-letting-the-crowd-reimagine-the-ending-and-their-lives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Familiar issues of discrimination and child marriage are being taken to the stage through interactive theatre in remote villagesHigh in the mountains of a remote village in western Nepal \u2013 a region once home to a fierce Maoist insurgency \u2013 a large crow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,59,241,440,61,878,877,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-global-development","category-nepal","category-sexual-violence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-stage","category-theatre","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24098,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097\/revisions\/24098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}