{"id":2386,"date":"2013-05-21T00:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T00:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2013-05-21T00:29:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T00:29:32","slug":"the-left-hand-of-darkness-goes-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Left Hand of Darkness&#8221; goes on stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader points me to a dramatization of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a>&#8216;s famous 1969 novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/Index-LeftHandOfDarkness.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Left Hand of Darkness<\/a><\/em>. The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hand2mouththeatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hand2mouth Theatre<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/portlandplayhouse.org\/frontpage\/front-page\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Playhouse<\/a> <\/em>in Oregon have brought the novel to the stage :\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opb.org\/artsandlife\/article\/ursula-le-guins-the-left-hand-of-darkness-takes-the-stage-at-the-portland-playhouse\/\" target=\"_d\">Sci-Fi Author, Ursula La Guin&#8217;s &#8220;The Left Hand of Darkness&#8221; Takes the Stage at the Portland Playhouse &#8211; OPB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this brief video, the author talks about her book and what it says about the meaning of gender:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tm4AGbJWSTE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader points me to a dramatization of\u00a0 Ursula K. Le Guin&#8216;s famous 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness. The Hand2mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse in Oregon have brought the novel to the stage :\u00a0 Sci-Fi Author, Ursula La Guin&#8217;s &#8220;The Left Hand of Darkness&#8221; Takes the Stage at the Portland Playhouse &#8211; OPB. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Left Hand of Darkness&#8221; goes on stage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[38,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Cu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15518,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15518","url_meta":{"origin":2386,"position":0},"title":"Audio: Remembering Ursula Le Guin","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Popular writer\u00a0Ursula K. 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