{"id":1397,"date":"2008-07-19T18:47:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2008-07-19T18:47:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T22:47:40","slug":"sharon-pollock-author-of-blood-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/sharon-pollock-author-of-blood-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Pollock, Author of Blood Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/07\/sharon_pollock.jpg\" title=\"sharon_pollock\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/07\/sharon_pollock.jpg\" alt=\"sharon_pollock\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1398 \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Award winning Canadian playwright, Sharon Pollock, author of the best play on the Borden case, <strong>Blood Relations<\/strong>, is in dire straits. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/news\/entertainment\/story.html?id=8c0b9a8f-6225-4616-bf38-7eb19a44f574\">According to the <em>Calgary Sun<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 27, a Canadian theatre icon awoke to a fire in her Calgary home. Although she managed to escape unharmed, playwright Sharon Pollock lost most of her possessions, including three of her beloved cats.<\/p>\n<p>Damage to the house was extensive. While insurance will cover some of the cost of restoration and rebuilding, the financial burden Pollock faces is formidable.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the Alberta Playwrights&#8217; Network (APN) and Downstage Theatre are hosting a benefit reading of Pollock&#8217;s celebrated 1981 Governor General&#8217;s Award-winning play, Blood Relations &#8212; a dramatic and particularly imaginative whodunit account of the infamous axe murders of Lizzie Borden&#8217;s mother and father on a muggy Massachusetts day in 1892. Directed by Downstage artistic director Simon Mallett, the reading will feature well-known Calgary actors Valerie Planche, Karen Johnson-Diamond, Katherine Kerbes, Laura Parken, David LeReaney, Kevin Rothery, and Stephen Hair.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is by donation, with all proceeds going toward helping Pollock rebuild her house and replace her possessions.<\/p>\n<p>With generous support from the Epcor Centre and Steam Whistle Brewery, the fundraiser takes place July 23 at 7 p.m. in the lobby of Jack Singer Concert Hall.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, or to find out how to make a donation, call APN at 1-800-268-8564, or visit www.albertaplaywrights.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award winning Canadian playwright, Sharon Pollock, author of the best play on the Borden case, Blood Relations, is in dire straits. According to the Calgary Sun On May 27, a Canadian theatre icon awoke to a fire in her Calgary home. Although she managed to escape unharmed, playwright Sharon Pollock lost most of her possessions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-degrees-of-separation","category-book-and-media-reviews","category-on-the-web","category-where-are-they-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}