House Humans - Softcover

MacIvor, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887545211 ISBN 13: 9780887545214

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel MacIvor has been creating new theatre since 1986 and was for twenty years artistic director of da da kamera, an international touring company based in Toronto which he ran with Sherrie Johnson. His published work includes See Bob Run, Never Swim Alone, You Are Here, In On It, How It Works, I Still Love You: Five Playsâ which won the Governor Generalâ s Literary Award for Drama in 2006â and His Greatness, which won Best New Play at the 2008 Jessie Awards in Vancouver. With Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House, Monster, Cul-de-sac and This Is What Happens Next. He received an Obie and a GLAAD Award for his play In On It which was presented in New York at PS122 in September of 2001.

Also a filmmaker, he has written and directed the feature films Past Perfect and Wilby Wonderful, and co-wrote and starred in Whole New Thing. He was the inaugural senior playwright-in-residence at the Banff Playwrightâ s Colony where he was developing his play Communion as part of a trilogy: Confession, produced by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Nova Scotia and Redemption, which he is developing at the National Theatre School. Currently he is writer-in-residence at the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto. Daniel is the recipient of the 2008 Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. He is represented by Thomas Pearson at ICM Talent. Check out Danielâ s web log at danielmacivor.com.

â I do trust my head and Iâ m just learning to trust my heart. Shows like House, they are largely from the head. To me, the light is the heart and the head is the darkness, but without the darkness, you donâ t see the light. My darkness is imposed upon me by my thinking. And feeling is movement, and thatâ s light.â â [Theatre has the power to transform lives. The lives of the practitioners transformâ because certainly mine hasâ and the lives of those audiences who come into the dark rooms with their minds and their hearts open, who are filled with questions and find a moment of peace in the presence of something innately familiar.â

About this edition

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0887545211
• ISBN 13: 9780887545214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 96