{"id":752,"date":"2012-06-14T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/06\/the-roots-of-a-theater-company.html"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:38:00","slug":"the-roots-of-a-theater-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/06\/the-roots-of-a-theater-company.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of a Theater Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS week my Influences column looked at Ellen Geer, who runs the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. For those many miles from the wilds of Topanga Canyon: This is a theater company, in a very rustic setting, founded by her father, blacklisted actor Will Geer, known to many as Grandpa Walton.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wxsueZGLN6M\/T9pnc5sTLZI\/AAAAAAAABYg\/gdMSzjQHHzE\/s1600\/William_Hunt_Claudio_and_Isabella_Shakespeare_Measure_for_Measure.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wxsueZGLN6M\/T9pnc5sTLZI\/AAAAAAAABYg\/gdMSzjQHHzE\/s320\/William_Hunt_Claudio_and_Isabella_Shakespeare_Measure_for_Measure.jpg\" width=\"177\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>William Holman Hunt painting<br \/>inspired by &#8220;Measure for Measure&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Ellen Geer spoke to me about her family&#8217;s struggles during the Red Scare, how she survived them, and about some theater figures who helped inspire her acting and her artistic direction of the theater company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-influences-20120613,0,2389351.story\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the story. I&#8217;m hoping to check out one of their Shakespeare plays over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS week my Influences column looked at Ellen Geer, who runs the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. For those many miles from the wilds of Topanga Canyon: This is a theater company, in a very rustic setting, founded by her father, blacklisted actor Will Geer, known to many as Grandpa Walton. William Holman Hunt paintinginspired by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135,97,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shakespeare","7":"category-theater","8":"category-west-coast","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}