Marion Bridge 2nd Edition by Daniel Macivor

Marion Bridge 2nd Edition by Daniel Macivor

This fascinating version of Daniel MacIvor's most successful play to date lets the reader in on a secret: it was never primarily written as a work for live theatrical performance, but as a vehicle for his development of a screenplay, also included in this new edition. In his surprisingly revealing introduction, MacIvor talks about the genesis of both the play and the movie; the lessons he learned about the differences between the two media; and their radically different stylistic, technical and practical demands on both their authors and their audiences.

A well-known practitioner of Canada's theatre of the avant-garde, MacIvor had for years wanted to write a brilliant screenplay, but there was a problem: he didn't know how. Most of his stark improvisational work for the live stage, centreed around minimalist sets and props, dramatic effects of light and sound, and usually his own improvisational solo performances, did not translate well into the medium of film. So in order to realize his ambition he decided to create Marion Bridge, a piece of conventional theatre, as a vehicle or transitionary playscript he thought he could use as a stylistic bridge from the live stage to the cinema. In the fact that Marion Bridge has become his most successful play to date lies one of the most important lessons MacIvor learned about the vast differences between the two media--between live performance that always relies on the audience to participate with the actor(s) in the active and collective creation of landscape and time within the space they share, and the cinematic experience wherein the creators and actors are absent, and the audience is estranged from the action by its passive consumption of a narrative of space and time always understood to take place in someone else's world outside of the theatre.

Daniel MacIvor has written a number of plays, including Watch Bob Run, Never Swim Alone, In On It, A Wonderful View, and His Greatness, and co-created a series of solo shows with Daniel Brooks that have toured abroad. Daniel got the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama and the coveted Siminovitch Prize for his collection of plays I Still Love You. An Obie Award and a GLAAD Award have also been bestowed upon him. He is now residing in Halifax, where he is working on the libretto for Rufus Wainwright's Hadrian, commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company, and producing a new play for Tarragon Theatre called New Magic Valley Fun Town.

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ISBN 13	9780889225527
ISBN 10	0889225524
Titel	Marion Bridge 2nd Edition
Autor	Daniel Macivor
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Talonbooks
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-12-28
Seitenanzahl	192
Preise	Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award for Drama 1999 (Canada)
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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