{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5ca4a75d29388cc466cf4481/615c9ba60c45570012c45efd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"J.T. Rogers: American Playwright","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5ca4a75d29388cc466cf4481/1633458981085-98a86e387967f5d9f319aeff00fdd507.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This conversation was first posted on the <strong><em>Hunkered Down Podcast</em></strong> on June 5, 2020.</p><p>J.T. Rogers urge to move is reflected in the dynamism of his Tony Award-winning play \"Oslo\" and in the way he perambulated around his office during our conversation. Clearly, this artist thinks on his feet.</p><p>“Oslo” -- first produced on Broadway in 2017 -- is a heart-wrenching telling of the back-channel meetings started by a Norwegian couple to bring Palestinian and Israeli leaders together to talk about peace—person to person.&nbsp;Of course, in the end, the resulting Oslo Accords failed to bring peace to the region.</p><p>J. T. Rogers' works include: <em>One Giant Leap,</em> <em>Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People,</em> and <em>Madagascar. “Oslo” </em>was his first Broadway play.</p><p>Alan Winson, interviewer.</p>","author_name":"Alan Winson & Rebecca McKean"}