‘Trenches’
The Denison Fringe Festival presents “Trenches,” an original work by Denison junior Evan Joslyn.
Gun violence is detrimental across the globe, causing catastrophic repercussions since the technology was invented. A gun’s sole purpose is to kill. This piece of theatre will explore the effect of guns and loss of life through the point of view of a nameless soldier in the trenches of the first World War. An introverted dreamer, with a fondness for Shakespeare and a longing for “brotherhood,” is pulled from the patterns of Wisconsin farm life and thrown into the chaos of one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.
When a small group of theatre artists programmed some alternative work on the periphery of the inaugural Edinburgh Festival in Scotland in 1947, they ignited the “fringe festival” movement, fostering exciting, non-traditional, and limits-expanding theatre around the world. The Denison Fringe will include a series of diverse original performances by students and faculty, guests, and student organizations and celebrate the theatre-making of Denisonians. It also will include, on Saturday, April 28, a staged reading of George S. Kaufman & Marc Connelly’s “Beggar on Horseback,” the first play produced on the Ace Morgan stage, in 1956, as we say good-bye to our home of more than sixty years.
