{"id":46151,"date":"2017-08-09T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46151"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:13","slug":"fricker-canadian-playwright-norm-foster-gets-his-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/08\/fricker-canadian-playwright-norm-foster-gets-his-due\/","title":{"rendered":"FRICKER: Canadian playwright Norm Foster gets his due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Dramatic Arts Assistant Professor Karen Fricker has written a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/stage\/2017\/08\/08\/canadian-playwright-norm-foster-gets-his-due.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in the Toronto Star<\/a> about Canadian playwright Norm Foster and the group that has created a festival in his name in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n<p>Fricker writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Norm Foster is widely considered Canada\u2019s most produced playwright, whose works receive an average of 150 productions per year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some might say that Foster\u2019s work doesn\u2019t need more production incentives. But for Patricia Vanstone and Emily Oriold, it\u2019s exactly Foster\u2019s popularity that makes a festival of his work a good idea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They\u2019re the executive team behind the Foster Festival in St. Catharines, now in its second summer season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Foster\u2019s plays are character-driven comedies, most often treating romance, marriage, working relationships or friendship. But, as Vanstone argues, they go deeper too: audiences \u201cleave feeling that they\u2019ve had a great laugh but, if they so desire, they have something they can chew on,\u201d themes like mortality, responsibility, legacy and hope. The festival\u2019s tag line is \u201chumour with heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/stage\/2017\/08\/08\/canadian-playwright-norm-foster-gets-his-due.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Dramatic Arts Assistant Professor Karen Fricker has written a piece recently published in the Toronto Star about Canadian playwright Norm Foster and the group that has created a festival in his name in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[5656,3166,5655,3892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95277,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46151\/revisions\/95277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}