From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on. Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn't seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty years. Based on what can be seen on Facebook, things have changed, but Dougie has no doubt they'll easily reconnect when Allen comes to visit. With the added flair of Dougie's ex-wife Cheryl and daughter Sandy, the group spends a night reminiscing, drinking, and dancing. But as the party progresses, shadows from Dougie and Allen's past come out to play, bringing along tough questions that have to be answered.

New Magic Valley Fun Town

Literature & Fiction

MacIvor, Daniel

Dramas & Plays

Playwrights Canada Press

Here Lies Henry is about a man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.

Here Lies Henry

Brooks, Daniel

House is stand up sit down one man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge. Humans is a collection of tiny stories about longing and life.

House Humans

Humor & Entertainment

Never Swim Alone is a play about two men locked in a deadly competition."...a perfectly self-contained and unabashedly artificial work… [MacIvor] is a writer with an angular sense of humour and an uncommon knack for probing basic elements and truths of human behaviour." —Vit Wagner, Toronto StarThis Is a Play is a hilarious postmodern romp through the interior lives of actors in a bad play."Ingenious, whimsical, a lyrical lunacy in the writing, This Is A Play is a theatre experience comedy you might associate with Tom Stoppard." —Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Never Swim Alone and This is a Play

A must-have collection of two celebrated solo works by Daniel MacIvor, winner of both the Siminovich Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. House is a stand up, sit down one-man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge. Here Lies Henry is a one-man show about lies and the nature of truth.

One Voice: House and Here Lies Henry

“Each play adds up to a theatre experience which is so intriguing that we find ourselves going back through our memory of watching it.”—from the introduction by Linda Moore
Five plays by Daniel MacIvor in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera. Includes: Never Swim Alone, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, In on It, and A Beautiful View.

I Still Love You

See Bob Run/Wild Abandon

Coach House Pr

This fascinating version of Daniel MacIvor?s most successful play to date lets the reader in on a secret: it was never primarily written as a work for live theatrical performance, but as a vehicle for his development of a screenplay, also included in this new edition. In his surprisingly revealing introduction, MacIvor talks about the genesis of both the play and the movie; the lessons he learned about the differences between the two media; and their radically different stylistic, technical and practical demands on both their authors and their audiences.A well-known practitioner of Canada?s theatre of the avant-garde, MacIvor had for years wanted to write a brilliant screenplay, but there was a problem: he didn?t know how. Most of his stark improvisational work for the live stage, centered around minimalist sets and props, dramatic effects of light and sound, and usually his own improvisational solo performances, did not translate well into the medium of film. So in order to realize his ambition he decided to create Marion Bridge, a piece of “conventional theatre,? as a vehicle or transitionary playscript he thought he could use as a stylistic “bridge? from the live stage to the cinema. In the fact that Marion Bridge has become his most successful play to date lies one of the most important lessons MacIvor learned about the vast differences between the two media—between live performance that always relies on the audience to participate with the actor(s) in the active and collective creation of landscape and time within the space they share, and the cinematic experience wherein the creators and actors are absent, and the audience is estranged from the action by its passive consumption of a narrative of space and time always understood to take place in someone else?s world outside of the theatre.

Marion Bridge

Talonbooks

Co-founder of Toronto’s groundbreaking theatre company da da kamera, Daniel MacIvor is Canada’s most influential post-modern playwright.In his latest collaboration with director Daniel Brooks, MacIvor plays the role of Leonard, who narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to understand them himself. Through the course of the play, we peer behind the curtains of his neighbourhood as MacIvor transforms into the multiple characters who bear witness to Leonard’s life and death. Yet each of their stories, while internally consistent, tells a subtly different version of what happened, progressively colouring and transforming our understanding of the characters as we think we had come to know them. In a headlong rush we understand that everyone’s story inevitably dead-ends at precisely the bottom of the preconceptions they brought to its telling.Punctuated by brilliant lighting and a mood-setting soundscape, this dazzling one-man show is storytelling of the highest order.

Cul-de-sac

Parenting & Relationships

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Books by MacIvor, Daniel

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New Magic Valley Fun Town

Here Lies Henry

House Humans

Never Swim Alone and This is a Play

One Voice: House and Here Lies Henry

I Still Love You

See Bob Run/Wild Abandon

House Humans

Marion Bridge

Cul-de-sac