{"id":5608,"date":"2026-07-18T03:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:36:34","slug":"when-it-hurts-you-play-usa-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/when-it-hurts-you-play-usa-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN IT HURTS YOU PLAY &#8211; USA \/ Serbia &#8211; 27th August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>27th August<\/strong><br><strong>WHEN IT HURTS YOU PLAY &#8211; USA \/ Serbia<\/strong><br><strong>Directed by Aleksey Burago<\/strong><br><strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When It Hurts You Play is a poignant one-woman piano performance by Serbian-American pianist and actress Danijela Popovic. Blending virtuosic live music with intimate storytelling, the show traces a woman\u2019s journey from growing up under a communist regime to rebuilding her life on a new continent.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery alignleft has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"4648\"  src=\"https:\/\/citf.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WHEN-IT-HURTS-YOU-PLAY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4648\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Finding refuge in the piano through loneliness, loss, and love, she reveals how music becomes both companion and lifeline. A moving fusion of theater and concert, the performance celebrates resilience, self-discovery, and the healing power of art.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ticket.lk\/citf-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citf.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tickets-lk.jpg\" width=\"800\" alt=\"citf\" title=\"citf\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When It Hurts You Play is a poignant one-woman piano performance by Serbian-American pianist and actress Danijela Popovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions\/5634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citf.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}