It was a simple, yet powerful statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to pay attention to the lives of Niagara\u2019s migrant agricultural workers,\u201d Ren\u00e9 Lopez, a worker advocate, said to Brock University Associate Professor David Fancy in 2010.<\/p>\n
That conversation began a journey of community collaboration that lead to the production of Our Lady of Delicias<\/em> by the Essential Collective Theatre, which runs from Friday, Feb. 23 until Sunday, March 4 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.<\/p>\n Fancy, a professor with the Dramatic Arts program, collaborated with dozens of migrant workers and Dramatic Arts students for two years to develop the play. The story features the character of Rangel, a Mexican migrant worker who has been travelling to Canada for years to work in the vineyards and greenhouses of Niagara.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited by this new script,\u201d says Essential Collective Theatres\u2019 Monica Dufault, a long-term Brock instructor who is directing the production. \u201cIt explores migrant worker issues in considerable depth with a real artistry that I\u2019m keen to share with audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHaving lived in Niagara for more than a dozen years now, I still feel that this is a reality that is consciously ignored: the lives of people who are our neighbours,\u201d says Fancy.<\/p>\n The cast of four, including Carla Melo, Juan Carlos Velis, Camila Diaz-Varela and Jos\u00e9e Young, features an exceptional range of Canadian acting talent with extensive stage and screen credits. Brock Dramatic Arts graduates James McCoy and Jo Pacinda are creating the design and costume design for the production.<\/p>\n What:<\/strong> Our Lady of Delicias<\/em>, performed by the Essential Collective Theatre<\/p>\n When:<\/strong> Friday, Feb. 23 to Sunday, March 4<\/p>\n Where:<\/strong> Robertson Theatre, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A simple, yet powerful conversation began a journey of community collaboration that lead to the production of Our Lady of Delicias by the Essential Collective Theatre, which runs from Friday, Feb. 23 until Sunday, March 4 at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,37],"tags":[5372,109,6286,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306"}],"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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49307,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions\/49307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}