{"id":3600,"date":"2018-12-03T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T19:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2019-06-17T21:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T21:35:47","slug":"marcus-gardleys-the-house-that-will-not-stand-historical-play-is-being-turned-into-a-feature-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/marcus-gardleys-the-house-that-will-not-stand-historical-play-is-being-turned-into-a-feature-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Gardley\u2019s \u2018The House That Will Not Stand\u2019 Historical Play Is Being Turned Into A Feature Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3601\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/thehousethatwillnotstand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"586\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/thehousethatwillnotstand.jpg 880w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/thehousethatwillnotstand-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/thehousethatwillnotstand-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><br \/>\nMarcus Gardley\u2019s award-winning historical play <i>The House That Will Not Stand<\/i> is on its way to becoming a full-length feature film. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/11\/marcus-gardley-the-house-that-will-not-stand-movie-mwm-studios-1202509487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a>, MWM Studios will be in charge of the adaptation, with Gardley writing the screenplay. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Set in the backdrop of 1800s New Orleans, <i>The House That Will Not Stand <\/i>is inspired by Garcia Lorca\u2019s <i>The House of Bernarda Alba, <\/i>which delves into the engrossing lives of free women of color who became millionaires through the common-law system of pla\u00e7age, the civil union of black Creole women and white men, and fought against racism prior to the Civil War. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The play had its initial run at the New York Stage and Film Company back in 2012. It earned Gardley the 2015 Glickman Award, and was a finalist for the 2015 Kennedy Prize based on dramas inspired by American history. This summer, it premiered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytw.org\/show\/house-will-not-stand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Theatre Workshop<\/a>. Directed by Obie Award winner Liliana Blain-Cruz, <i>The House That Will Not Stand<\/i> starred Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Juliana Canfield, Harriet D. Foy, Lynda Grav\u00e1tt, Nedra McClyde, Marie Thomas and Michelle Wilson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In addition to the play, Gardley has written for television series such as Showtime\u2019s <i>The Chi<\/i>, Netflix\u2019<i>s Mindhunter<\/i>, and Amazon\u2019s <i>Z: The Beginning of Everything. <\/i>He is currently a producer on the upcoming Apple series<i> Foundation<\/i>, which is based on Isaac Asimov\u2019s acclaimed sci-fi trilogy. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Gardley\u2019s award-winning historical play The House That Will Not Stand is on its way to becoming a full-length feature film. As reported by Deadline, MWM Studios will be in charge of the adaptation, with Gardley writing the screenplay. \u00a0 Set in the backdrop of 1800s New Orleans, The House That Will Not Stand is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,175],"tags":[410,477,31,475,478,476],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","category-arts-culture","tag-broadway","tag-civil-war","tag-featured","tag-marcus-gardley","tag-play","tag-the-house-that-will-not-stand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}