{"id":2597,"date":"2009-02-25T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.playfighting.ca\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2012-02-16T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T08:57:16","slug":"vampire-cowboys-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/stage-combat-2\/vampire-cowboys-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Cowboys on Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soul Samurai Logo, from Tor.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/images\/stories\/blogs\/09_02\/SoulSamurai_Logo.jpg\" title=\"Soul Samurai Logo, from Tor.com\" width=\"429\" height=\"308\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soul Samurai Logo, from Tor.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dear gods of stage combat, please grant me the means to see this show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soul Samurai is the joint work of Ma-Yi Theater Company, which is devoted to \u201cdevelop[ing] new plays and performance works that essay Asian American experiences,\u201d and Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, which tends \u201ctowards the creation and production of new works of theatre based in stage combat, dark comedy [and] a comic book aesthetic.\u201d While both of these goals are fulfilled to some extent, VCT\u2019s is certainly the more prominent of the two, especially their allegiance to comic books: every fight scene seems to have at least one freeze-frame that obviously would have been that issue\u2019s splash page.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=15101\">Tor.com \/ Science fiction and fantasy \/ Blog posts \/ Vampire Cowboys\u2019 <i>Soul Samurai<\/i> brings hip-hop, martial arts, and comic books to the New York stage<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear gods of stage combat, please grant me the means to see this show: Soul Samurai is the joint work of Ma-Yi Theater Company, which 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