{"id":52643,"date":"2018-08-14T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52643"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:24:54","slug":"dramatic-arts-grads-in-toronto-fringe-festival-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/08\/dramatic-arts-grads-in-toronto-fringe-festival-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic Arts grads in Toronto Fringe Festival spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two plays featuring Brock Dramatic Arts graduates will be playing this week in Toronto as part of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tocentre.com\/programs\/best-toronto-fringe-theatre-festival\">\u00a0Best of Fringe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>First Dates,<\/em>\u00a0a play about love, loss and people aching to connect, is written and directed by Niagara Falls native Wes Berger and features music by his brother, musician and Brock alumnus Aaron Berger (BA \u201917).<\/p>\n<p>Also featured during the Best of Fringe event is\u00a0<em>Anywhere<\/em>, the newest work by award-winning playwright Michael Ross Albert starring Brock alumna Cass Van Wyck (BA \u201913). The thriller, set in an Airbnb, follows a cordial relationship between strangers that escalates into a tense battle for control.<\/p>\n<p><em>Anywhere<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>First Dates<\/em>\u00a0were both selected as 2018 Patron\u2019s Picks at the Toronto Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the department, we want to congratulate Wes, Cass and Aaron,\u201d says Professor Joe Norris, Chair of the Department of Dramatic Arts. \u201cAs always, we celebrate our students\u2019 successes and are pleased their hard and talented work is recognized in the Ontario theatre community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival provides opportunities for emerging and established artists to share their productions with the community in an affordable and accessible way. The Best of Fringe remounts selected productions at the Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts to give patrons a second chance to see the shows.<\/p>\n<p>Also in July was the Hamilton Fringe Festival, which showcased another production filled with Brock talent.\u00a0<em>September Songs <\/em>was directed by Colin Bruce Anthes (BA \u201914) and featured five Brock grads. The show will be coming to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=EventArticle_18PAC09_Twitches_and_Itches_September_Songs&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\">FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre<\/a>\u00a0Nov. 1 to 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two plays featuring Brock Dramatic Arts graduates will be playing this week in Toronto as part of the Best of Fringe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,54,37],"tags":[656,2909,804,1073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52643"}],"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=52643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52689,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52643\/revisions\/52689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}