Cul-de-sac

Description

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 neighborhood as MacIvor transforms into the multiple characters who bear witness to Leonard's life and death. 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.

Writer, performer, producer, artistic director, and filmmaker Daniel MacIvor has been creating original Canadian theater since 1986 when he founded the highly acclaimed theater company da da kamera. His play Marion Bridge (Talonbooks, 1999) was nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award for Drama.

"Beautifully arcing and clever script ..." --"Philadelphia Weekly"