McMaster grads take to the stage at the 2018 Hamilton Fringe Festival
Left to right: Claire Shingleton-Smith as “Cecile Bartley” and Brian Morton as “Jack Grubb” in production of UNDER THE APPLE TREE, at the 2018 Hamilton Fringe Festival. | Photo by: Susan Robinson
Various productions ranging in theme and genre are being shown from July 19-29 as part of the Hamilton Fringe Festival.
More than 50 productions – some including a handful of McMaster grads – will be offering up musicals, dance, comedies, magic shows, dramas, and family entertainment.
Zac Williams, class of 2016 Arts & Science, will be performing his one-man show, Blockhead, that comedically tackles the theme of millennial anxiety about the future.
Rex Deverall, class of 1963 Faculty of Divinity, is the playwright for Photographic Evidence. The play is a fictionalized account of the remarkable life of famed Canadian photographer Geraldine Moodie as she wrestles with the confines and constraints of womanhood in the 19th century, and her husband’s complicity in the Canadian colonial enterprise.
Under the Apply Tree is directed and written by Brian Morton, a mature student from 1999 and 2007 studying History. The play, featuring Claire Shingleton-Smith, 2016 Humanities alumna, recounts an actual musical comedy vaudeville act that toured in 1920 and 1921.
The Hamilton Fringe Festival is an annual, non-juried theatre festival founded in October 2002. The first Hamilton Fringe took place in the Summer of 2003.
