{"id":47486,"date":"2025-08-29T01:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=47486"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:24:51","slug":"rolls-poetic-adventures-at-vancouver-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/rolls-poetic-adventures-at-vancouver-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls&#8217; poetic Adventures at Vancouver Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Vancouver Fringe Festival runs Sept. 4-14. For the full lineup and tickets, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouverfringe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vancouverfringe.com<\/a>. (photo from festival listing)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Jem Rolls brings Adventures in Canadian Parking Lots to the Vancouver Fringe Festival Sept. 5-14. \u201cDescribing the contents of the show is difficult, as it manages to cover so much ground in so little time,\u201d writes Aiden Robert Bruce in a June post on <a href=\"https:\/\/kingstontheatre.ca\/jem-rolls-is-a-sensation-and-me-i-cant-stop-listening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kingstontheatre.ca<\/a>. \u201cThe series of poems answers a variety of questions like: \u2018Why are Canadians so good at smiling?\u2019 \u2018What is the most sellable title for a show?\u2019 \u2018How do the English view history?\u2019 and perhaps most curiously, \u2018When is he going to get to the parking lots?\u2019 Amidst this amalgamation of individual topics, there is beautiful poetic imagery, dark science fiction, Fringe history lessons, and throughout it all there is almost always humour. The constant comedy is not only helpful in keeping the audience engaged, but also is used to create extremely powerful moments where the humour ceases and nothing but a striking verse remains.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Fringe Festival runs Sept. 4-14. For the full lineup and tickets, visit vancouverfringe.com. (photo from festival listing) Jem Rolls brings Adventures in Canadian Parking Lots to the Vancouver Fringe Festival Sept. 5-14. \u201cDescribing the contents of the show is difficult, as it manages to cover so much ground in so little time,\u201d writes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[4475,24289,387,1817],"class_list":["post-47486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performing-arts","tag-jem-rolls","tag-performance-art","tag-poetry","tag-vancouver-fringe-festival"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}