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 * //Note from Russ, Wednesday afternoon: I've started editing, but I'm pretty frustrated that the page is full of quotes with no attribution or source. I also wonder if the list of plays (which includes a fair bit of duplication) is the best selection of information to include about MacIvor //**//**.

//**Well there's a lot of editing, done by me, Jessica. Of course the formatting is a little off. I can't really think of what pictures to add, but I do think its appropriate to have a self aware PC that says "Hi Mom" by my name in the credits : D **//  ​ **//

//**This is a Playgoer's Companion ** //**Lettuce forget theatre and perform in the world! ** //[|****//**Fourth Wall? Gone. Set? A bare stage, marked only by a square of light. Plot? Well, MacIvor demands that his audience make it up as he goes along.**//****] //**[|****http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/Reviews/H/Here_Lies_Henry/2006/09/22/1877858.html****]  **

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Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. MacIvor was born on July 23, 1962 in Sydney, Nova Scotia and attended Dalhousie University in Halifax. MacIvor then went on to attend George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario. From 1987 to 2007, with producing partner Sherrie Johnson, MacIvor ran da da kamera, a respected international theatre touring company that has brought his work to Australia, Israel, Europe, the UK, and extensively throughout Canada and the US. Five of MacIvor’s plays were published ** // //**as I Still Love You **// // **in 2006, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of da da kamera. His other plays include: ** **Yes I Am and **// //**Who Are You? (1989), **// //**Wild Abandon **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(1990), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Somewhere I Have Never Travelled **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(1990), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Never Swim Alone (1991), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">2-2 Tango **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(1991), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Jump **////**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(1992), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">This is a Play **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(1992), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">The Lorca Play **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(1992), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">In On It **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(2000), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Cul-de-Sac **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(2003), **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A Beautiful View **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(2006), and **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">How It Works **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(2007) **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">. ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">MacIvor has won many awards including a coveted Governor General’s Award for Drama for his works ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Never Swim Alone, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, In on It, ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">and ** // //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A Beautiful View **////**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">. R ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">ecently, MacIvor has written, co-written and directed several independent films, usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia. MacIvor's films include ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> Past Perfect, Marion Bridge, Whole New Thing ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">and ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> Wilby Wonderful ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">. **

//<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(The following may be too much of an interesting aside to include, but it explains the importance of minimalism and metatheater well, i think: ) **

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">M **// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> **//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">inimalism is //** //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">a literary or dramatic style or principle based on the extreme restriction of a work's contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements, normally within a short form, e.g. a haiku, epigram, brief dramatic sketch, or monologue. Minimalism is often characterized by a bareness or starkness of vocabulary or of dramatic setting, and a reticence verging on or even becoming silence. The term has been borrowed from modern sculpture and painting, and applied especially to the later dramatic work of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, whose 30‐second play Breath (1969), for example, has no characters and no words. **// <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Shakespeare employs metatheatrical devices throughout his plays. Some examples include **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest. In each of these plays there is a play or masque presented as part of the larger plot. In Hamlet, there occurs the following exchange between Hamlet and Polonius: Hamlet: My lord, you played once i'th'university, you say. Polonius: That I did my lord, and was accounted a good actor. Hamlet: And what did you enact? Polonius: I did enact Julius Cesar. I was killed i'th'Capitol. Brutus killed me. Hamlet: It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. Hamlet (3.2.87-93). If the only significance of this exchange lay in its mentioning of fictional dramatic characters within another play, it would be called a metadramatic moment. Within its original context, however, there is an even greater, metatheatrical resonance. Critics assume that the roles in each case were played by the same actor in the original productions by Shakespeare's company; Polonius and Caesar by John Heminges and Hamlet and Brutus by Richard Burbage. Apart from linking the murderer Brutus with Hamlet who is soon to kill Polonius in 3.4, the lines also trigger the audience's awareness of the actors' identities in previous roles. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">[|****http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatheatre****] <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">The two plays recreated by the Nasty Shadows Theatre Company tonight, Here Lies Henry and This is a Play, ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">incorporate a minimalist and meta-theatrical style. ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">In Here Lies Henry, MacIvor portrays a man who acknowledges the presence of the audience as a part of the story experience. Here Lies Henry ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">deals with Henry, a self-confessed liar. ** //<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">"Outward descriptors of the protagonist, Henry -- cosmetics salesman, gay, Canadian, dead -- are mundane bric-a-brac to his awkward ramblings **// //**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">about the meaning of life, and the pointlessness of it all. He tries to tell us something we don't already know, but because he is a liar, it's hard to distinguish what is truth and what is a lie." **[|******http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Theatre_review_Here_Lies_Henry-2154.aspx******] //<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">( **[|******www.canadiantheatre.com******]**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">). Source: "Is the grandaddy of festivals showing its age?" by Drew Pautz, ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">The Globe and Mail, August 24, 2000. **//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">This is a Play portrays t **//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">hree live and vulnerable people beset by real and imagined anxieties and demonstrates a **//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">self awareness of the theatre experience. When audiences are able to grasp the inner drama and self awareness of the story, "we must conclude that deconstruction is now family entertainment." **[|******http://neandellus.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/fringe-this-is-a-play/******]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Plays produced by da da kamera do not restrain themselves to time limits and formulas, but instead focus on creation and simplicity while creating a "clear and simple connection between performance and audience." **//

//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> ("This is a play" suggestions of photos for cover of playgoer's companion?) No please don't put this picture in, especially not as a cover. If it is going to be a picture of actors, then at least it should be a picture of the actors from our current production, or the one of MacIvor himself above **//