MacIvor

Daniel MacIvor Comes to UW … Twice!!

This Is A Play was about a play about a play. Liam Lacey, in The Globe and Mail, referred to it as, "Ingenious, whimsical…a comedy you might associate with Tom Stoppard." When the play first premiered at the 1992 Toronto Fringe Festival, audiences were knocked out by MacIvor's manic humour and the simplicity with which he skewered social conventions.

House, a one-man tour de force, originally featured MacIvor himself. Since its premiere, almost eight years ago, the play has been performed by many actors in many languages -- if anyone wondered about the playwright and actor being inextricably defined by this work, the production history succeeds at eradicating such thoughts. House is, by turns, savagely comic and heartfelt.

Man holding his arms in the air
Man with a light in his face
Man standing on a chair and holding his hands in front of him
Man and a woman in a dress sitting on the ground
Woman talking over the shoulder of another woman while a man looks on in the background
Man and woman hugging another woman
Man and two women standing on stage
Man holding his arms in the air
1 / 7
Man with a light in his face
2 / 7
Man standing on a chair and holding his hands in front of him
3 / 7
Man and a woman in a dress sitting on the ground
4 / 7
Woman talking over the shoulder of another woman while a man looks on in the background
5 / 7
Man and woman hugging another woman
6 / 7
Man and two women standing on stage
7 / 7

Winter 2003 Production

Performances: February 5-8 & 12-15, 2003

Venue: Hagey Hall 180

Cast

This Is a Play

Male Actor/Joey - Matt Borch

Female Actor/Sissy - Rachel Molnar

Older Female Actor/Auntie - Erika Sedge

House

Victor - John E. Robertson

Creative

Director (This Is A Play) - Jeremy Taylor

Director (House) - Erika Sedge

Set Design - William Chesney

Lighting Design - Travis Hatt

Costume Design - Jocelyne Sobeski

Costume Coordination - Steph McKay

Sound Design - Fraser Smith

Production

Stage Managers:

This Is A Play - Jessica Bowman

House - Erin Neilson

Assistant Stage Manager - Celeste Dickson

Production Manager - Scott Banks

Technical Director - Scott Spidell

Publicity - Joyce Hahn

Publicity Assistant - Erika Kottelenberg

House Manager - Jen Cook

Front of House & Publicity Crew - Dana Fernald, Robyn Joffe

Poster & Program Cover Design - Yen Chu Design

Program Design - Drama 301 Class

Lighting Head - David Devine

Lighting Crew - Ariel Bourbonnais, Smantha Leask, Amanda Rees

Carpentry Head - Heather Bedard

Carpentry Crew - Tegan Cassidy, Denise Hill, Jessica Jones, Eloisa Laquiran

Wardrobe Head - Miranda EJ Warner

Wardrobe Assistant - Meredith Kenzie

Wardrobe Crew - Lindsey Alston, Amaranth Day, Jessica O’Connor

Props Head - Janine Auger

Scenic Pain Head - Krystina Labadie

Props & Scenic Paint Crew - Lori Anderson, Travis Hatt, Julia Schuessler

Sound - Monika Chmiel

Additional Crew - Rasheed Ali, Diana Knoll, Greg More, Christina Romasz

Special thank you to

Home Depot

UW Theatre Centre