{"id":3274986,"date":"2024-07-22T14:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3274986"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:19:00","slug":"notable-acts-2024-the-lunchbox-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/notable-acts-2024-the-lunchbox-interview","title":{"rendered":"Notable Acts 2024 (The Lunchbox Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>One of the most exciting crops to be harvested each late summer is new performances of new plays.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"3274987\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/notable-acts-2024-the-lunchbox-interview\/attachment\/lunchbox2024notableacts1\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lunchbox2024NotableActs1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1-800x800.png\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3274987\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1-800x800.png 800w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1-100x100.png 100w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My guests today are all participants in this year&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nbacts.com\/\">NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival<\/a><\/strong>: <strong>Len Falkenstein<\/strong> (festival organizer; director); <strong>Olivia Onalundala<\/strong> (High School Playwright: <em>&#8220;Little Rock&#8221;<\/em>); <strong>Merrit Johnson<\/strong> (director: <em>&#8220;Little Rock&#8221;, &#8220;Burden of Proof&#8221;<\/em>); and <strong>Madeline Savoie<\/strong> (playwright: <em>&#8220;Splinter, Winter, Bloom&#8221;<\/em>; director: <em>&#8220;Animate Objects&#8221;<\/em>). They join me to talk about how these plays developed, and what to look forward to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nbacts.com\/\">NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival<\/a><\/strong> runs from July 24-August 3 in various locations in Fredericton, including Memorial Hall at UNB campus and outside the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and a few other locations downtown. <em>Slither, Wither Boom<\/em> is part of the <strong>Play Out Loud<\/strong> series playing on Sunday, July 28 at 2pm. <em>Animate Objects<\/em>, <em>Little Rock<\/em> and <em>Burden of Proof<\/em> are part of the <strong>Play Out Loud<\/strong> series playing on Saturday, August 3 at 2pm at Memorial Hall. <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4012\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4012','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3274986-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guests today are all participants in this year&#8217;s NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival: Len Falkenstein (festival organizer; director); Olivia Onalundala (High School Playwright: &#8220;Little Rock&#8221;); Merrit Johnson (director: &#8220;Little Rock&#8221;, &#8220;Burden of Proof&#8221;); and Madeline Savoie (playwright: &#8220;Splinter, Winter, Bloom&#8221;; director: &#8220;Animate Objects&#8221;).<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4013\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4013','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3274986-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-07-18%20Notable%20Acts%201%20-%20Len%20-%20Olivia%20-%20Merrit%20-%20Madeline.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/notable-acts-2024-the-lunchbox-interview\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3274987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1372,618,491,567,3775,1375,1371],"class_list":["post-3274986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-drama","tag-festival","tag-interview","tag-local","tag-nbacts","tag-plays","tag-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2024NotableActs1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274988,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274986\/revisions\/3274988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}