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category: Drama
published: Mar 2013
ISBN:9780889228078
publisher: Talonbooks

Cul-de-sac

by Daniel MacIvor, foreword by Daniel Brooks

tagged: canadian
Description

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.

About the Authors

Daniel MacIvor is one of Canada’s most accomplished playwrights and performers. Winner of the prestigious Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize, the GLAAD Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and many others, Daniel’s plays have been met with acclaim throughout North America.


Daniel Brooks is one of Canada’s most accomplished theatre makers. As a writer, director, and performer he has collaborated with some of the country’s finest talents in producing a body of daring and original work. His many achievements include a series of monologues created with Daniel MacIvor, direction of work by John Mighton, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Sophocles, Jorge Borges, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, and many creations including Insomnia, The Eco Show, The Good Life, The Noam Chomsky Lectures, Bigger Than Jesus, Pokey Jones, The Full Light of Day, and a series of plays created with Don McKellar and Tracy Wright (Augusta Company). His work has toured across Canada and around the world. He was co-artistic director of the Augusta Company, artistic director of Necessary Angel from 2003–2012, and an associate artist at Soulpepper Theatre. He was also a playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre for seven years. He was recently the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto. His many awards in the theatre include the Siminovitch Prize. He teaches regularly and has had a significant impact on theatre artists across Canada. He is currently writing Other People, a play about cancer, madness, theatre, and death.

Contributor Notes

Daniel MacIvor
A prolific playwright, dynamic performer, producer and artistic director, Daniel MacIvor has been creating original Canadian theatre since 1986 when he founded the highly acclaimed theatre company da da kamera, which has won a Chalmers Award for Innovation in Theatre (1998). MacIvor is also a successful filmmaker. His projects include the award winning short film The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a Fairy Anymore.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama

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