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    ISBN: 9780889225152 | Paperback

    80 pages | Pub. Date: 20050315
    6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.2 D inches
    Backlist | Drama | Bisac: DRA013000
    Rights: WORLD

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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.

Short-listed 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama

By 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.

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Foreword by Daniel Brooks

Daniel Brooks performed his own work in Europe and South America, and worked with many theatre companies in Toronto as a writer, director and actor. He was the artistic co-director of Toronto’s Augusta Company. In 1991, he co-authored The Noam Chomsky Lectures with Guillermo Verdecchia.

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