‘Too Cold to Swim’

The Denison Fringe Festival presents “Moving On,” an original play by Denison senior Casey Parker.

What is a swimming pool without water? Can friends be friends if they’re not even…friendly? Which kind of chip is best: potato or tortilla? These are just a few of the questions that Parker’s Fringe piece hopes to answer. A coming-of-age story for the ages, “Moving On” deals with themes of love, loss, and what it all means in the end.

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.