{"id":7749,"date":"2009-11-11T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2009-11-11T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:34:14","slug":"shimerman-in-seafarer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/11\/shimerman-in-seafarer\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimerman in Seafarer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Armin Shimerman<\/strong> (<strong>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/strong>: Quark) was so impressed after seeing <em>The Seafarer<\/em> on Broadway several years ago, he called his agent to have the agent find a production of the play in which Shimerman could appear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just blown away by it,&#8221; explained Shimerman. &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderfully humorous, with hints of the supernatural and a theme of redemption. I told my agent that I wanted to do this show and asked him to find me a production. I&#8217;d never done that before. But I knew this was something that I had to do. This show is just so superbly written.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But when Shimerman did find a production by the san Diego Repertory Theater, he discovered that the role he wanted in <em>The Seafarer<\/em> was already filled. &#8220;Originally, I wanted to play the devil,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What actor wouldn&#8217;t want to play the devil? But <strong>Sam<\/strong> (<strong>Woodhouse<\/strong>, the Rep&#8217;s artistic director) is playing that role, so I&#8217;m playing Richard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Seafarer<\/em> is the story of four friends who get together in a coastal suburb north of Dublin on Christmas Eve to play poker. A guest of one of the friends turns out to be the devil in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>Shimerman is playing Richard, the aging and blind brother of the alcoholic James &#8220;Sharkey&#8221; Harkin. Richard likes to drink and to aggravate his brother. &#8220;I have a brother,&#8221; said Shimerman. &#8220;Our relationship is not similar to this one, but the show is about our relationships with our families, something McPherson explores with pathos and humor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Seafarer<\/em> opens November 20 and runs through December 13 at the San Diego Repertory Theater in San Diego. Further information can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdrep.org\/event2.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Quark) was so impressed after seeing The Seafarer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663],"tags":[2434,2977],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","tag-shimerman","tag-the-seafarer"],"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> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-ds9\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","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=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}