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Daniel MacIvor: 2006 Governor General's Award-winner - Drama
 A
dazzling display of virtuosity and honesty, these plays
demonstrate the author's consummate theatricality, as well
as his compelling humanity. Journeying from the archetypal
male world of Never Swim Alone to the dynamic
female world of A Beautiful View, this collection
is quintissential MacIvor, breathtakingly innovative and
overwhelmingly recognizable.
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Still Love You: Five Plays by Daniel MacIvor
Daniel MacIvor
Never Swim Alone is a competition. "If
you let it, compassion will kill desire. Especially the desire
to be first. And being first, my friends, is the point." The
Soldier Dreams is a darkly comic play
about life, death and grief. As a young man, David lies dying
of AIDS as his family gathers around his bed trying to understand
his delirious mutterings. While the living struggle to find
the meaning in David's dying words, MacIvor takes the audience
inside David's imagination to recapture significant moments
in his life. In You Are Here, You are about to meet Alison,
who searches her life for meaning. In a series of luminous
encounters, we're drawn into Alison's world: love that fades,
hopes that die, and enduring friendship that offers the promise
of redemption. In On It is a spiralling narrative about a dying
man trying to make plans for the end, a pair of lovers trying
to make it work and two men trying to make a play. A world
where accidents happen. A story about control. A play that
keeps its options open. Softcover, 250 pp. $29.95.
Plays by Daniel MacIvor.
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