{"id":21382,"date":"1998-10-01T13:23:03","date_gmt":"1998-10-01T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21382"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:55:48","slug":"chapter-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/10\/01\/chapter-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinson Players to stage Neil Simon&#039;s &quot;Chapter Two&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Robinson Players, a Bates College theater group, will stage four performances of Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Simon&#8217;s comic drama <em>Chapter Two<\/em> Thursday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 17, at 2 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. Directed by Jonathan Adler, a Bates junior from Newton, Mass., all performances of <em>Chapter Two<\/em> will be in Gannett Theater. The public is invited to attend, and general admission is $5.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Chapter Two<\/em>, one of Simon&#8217;s more autobiographical plays, traces the limbo period in George Schneider&#8217;s life, between bereavement for lost love and the excitement of new romance. George is devastated when his wife of 12 years dies, and it isn&#8217;t until he meets the spunky, dynamic actress Jennie Malone that he faces the prospect of enjoying life again. Encouraged by their love-starved, dysfunctional confidantes, the story of George and Jennie ranges from high-spirited hilarity to painful sentimentality.<\/p>\n<p>Next in the Theater at Bates series will be Constance Condon&#8217;s comedy <em>Tales of the Lost Formicans<\/em>, Nov. 6-8 and 12-15 in Shaeffer Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Robinson Players, a Bates College theater group, will stage four performances of Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Simon&#8217;s comic drama &#8220;Chapter Two&#8221; Thursday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 17, at 2 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. Directed by Jonathan Adler, a Bates junior from Newton, Mass., all performances of &#8220;Chapter Two&#8221; will be in Gannett Theater. The public is invited to attend, and general admission is $5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[6135,6889,7575,8661,9087],"class_list":["post-21382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-robinson-players","tag-theater-at-bates","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82654,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21382\/revisions\/82654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}