{"id":40698,"date":"2015-05-14T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=40698"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T18:08:42","slug":"trek-actors-in-l-a-sci-fi-play-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/05\/trek-actors-in-l-a-sci-fi-play-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Actors in L.A. Sci-Fi Play Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SciFestLAPlay051415.gif\" alt=\"SciFestLAPlay051415\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second annual <em>Sci-Fest L.A<\/em>. is in progress and several <em>Star Trek<\/em> actors are taking part in this year&#8217;s plays.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sci-Fest L.A.<\/em> presents &#8220;new one-acts adapted from some of the giants in the sci-fi and horror fields, including <strong>Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury<\/strong> and<strong> Clive Barker<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Trek actors appearing will include <strong>Walter Koenig, Nazneen Contractor<\/strong> (<em>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em>), and <strong>Tucker Smallwood<\/strong> (<em>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>There are two programs which play on alternate days. Each program &#8220;consists of four or five plays lasting ten to twenty minutes each.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Koenig will be appearing in one of the Program B plays, <em>Efficiency<\/em>. In <em>Efficiency,<\/em> directed by <strong>Jaime Robledo<\/strong>, a &#8220;ruthless dictator demands a meeting with a horrifically wounded soldier who (with the help of &#8216;replacement parts&#8217;) has been transformed into an unstoppable killing machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contractor and Smallwood will be appearing in one of the Program A plays, <em>Human History<\/em>. In <em>Human History<\/em>, directed by<strong> Malcolm Barrett <\/strong>and<strong> Matthew Leavitt<\/strong>, &#8220;far in the future, in a classroom on a distant planet, racial tensions run high as Earth&#8217;s history is debated, forgotten and relearned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plays will take place at the <em>Acme Theater<\/em> at 135 N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Tickets cost $20-25 (online) or $25-30 (in person). For more information, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fest.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second annual Sci-Fest L.A. is in progress and several Star Trek actors are taking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2589,3185,8460],"class_list":["post-40698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-koenig","tag-play","tag-sci-fest"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40700,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40698\/revisions\/40700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}