{"id":43263,"date":"2011-06-12T03:14:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T07:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/43263\/art-fleecing-men-joko-frosine\/"},"modified":"2011-06-12T03:14:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T07:14:32","slug":"art-fleecing-men-joko-frosine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/43263\/art-fleecing-men-joko-frosine\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know The Art of Fleecing Men (Joko as Frosine)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ahhhh\u2026 what joy there is to be had up on the stage, particularly in a small-time, community theatre production such as the one I am in now.\u00a0 I\u2019ve run into dozens of people in my life who so want to make a living as entertainers, and setting aside any\u00a0 narcissistic desire for fame and adoration, they, like me, simply love the art and craft of performing.\u00a0 Who wouldn\u2019t want to get paid to do what they love?\u00a0 I suspect, however, that once acting becomes a job, some of the joy disappears.\u00a0 Not that any of that affects how well one performs, and certainly those who CAN make a living at it are, by definition, very good at their craft, but the innocence, the pure intentions and child-like enthusiasm one encounters in community theatre is probably not duplicated in the professional shows.<\/font><\/p>\n

I will eventually produce a blog where you can see the entirety of our student organization\u2019s production of The Miser, but for now, as this is my blog, I will start with my entrance.<\/font><\/p>\n

The story thus far is that Harpagon, an elderly, miserly gentleman has declared his intention to seek the hand in marriage of Marianne, a comely newcomer to Paris.\u00a0 Unbeknownst to Harpagon, his son, Cleante has also fallen for Marianne and she for him.\u00a0 This will cause many complications later in play,\u00a0 but for now, we get a status update from the intriguing Frosine, whom Harpagon has enlisted to act as matchmaker between Marianne and himself.<\/font><\/p>\n

Harpagon has just received a large amount of cash (10,000 Francs), and the sanctity of his hiding place is more important than talking to Frosine, who enters here.\u00a0 Instead, Frosine (an alcoholic who cannot go more than 10 minutes without hitting the flask secured in her voluptuous bosom) encounters LaFleche, valet to Cleante, and a man (played by Katherine) who does not hold a very high regard for the miserly Harpagon.<\/p>\n

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Frosine does her very best to alleviate Harpagon\u2019s misgivings and show him how much of an advocate she is for him.\u00a0 Of course, she is setting him up to ask for the reward she really deserves and needs quite desperately.<\/p>\n

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Here it is! Joko’s latest stage performance!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,23],"tags":[193,3638,81,1538,3478,3637,2509],"class_list":["post-43263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-entertainment","tag-college","tag-frosine","tag-joko","tag-seattle","tag-the-miser","tag-theater","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}