{"id":188,"date":"2009-06-03T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T03:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-06-04T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T12:17:25","slug":"a-waste-of-time-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"A waste of time and money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I saw an ad for\u00a0 a one man show by Roberto Benigni (of La Vita e bella fame) about Dante&#8217;s comedy. I had adored similar shows by Fabrice Luchini, so figured I could not go wrong.\u00a0 The tickets were incredibly expensive, so I did not dare buy one for a friend (which proved to be a good move in the end).<\/p>\n<p>The papers talked of a show in French and Italian with &#8220;subtitles&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to the venue, I was surprised to be seated in a sea of mature Italians, who did not speak any French&#8230;and when Benigni appeared on stage everyone in the hall jumped to their feet and\u00a0 broke out into thunderous applause&#8230;that should have tipped me off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After a few pirouettes, he picked up the mike and started talking&#8230;in Italian and as fast as a machine gun&#8230;.I figured he would do a short intro and then switch to French&#8230;well&#8230;no such luck&#8230;he kept on speaking Italian at the speed of light for a full 2 hours&#8230;He must have been very funny as the audience chuckled often and broke out into serious laughter several times&#8230;but I had NO clue.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that it was one night in Italian and one night partly in French&#8230; I obviously landed on\u00a0 the Italian night (I wish the ticket agent had mentioned it!)&#8230;and I never saw any subtitles anywhere&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>There was no intermission&#8230;and I was seated in the middle of a row&#8230;.so I could not decently leave before the end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This was a very long evening&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Live and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I saw an ad for\u00a0 a one man show by Roberto Benigni (of La Vita e bella fame) about Dante&#8217;s comedy. I had adored similar shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}