Boston University Libraries. Services. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share. Social. Mail. 1 day ago · Two of these pieces, both directed with a confident hand by Open Fist’s associate artistic director Amanda Weir, are paired by Open Fist into a brisk and engrossing double bill which leans hard into the award-winning playwright’s unique, meta-theatrical approach to maximum advantage. The shorter of the two works, “Never Swim Alone,” is. Never Swim Alone is a play about two men locked in a deadly competition." a perfectly self-contained and unabashedly artificial work [MacIvor] is a writer with an angular sense of humour and an uncommon knack for probing basic elements and truths of human behaviour."/5(2).
A funny, satirical story, Never Swim Alone is about Frank and Bill, two egotisitical men locked in a ruthless competition of one-upmanship for seemingly no reason. A hilarious metaplay, This Is A Play follows three actors who, while performing, reveal their own thoughts and motivations as they struggle through crazy stage directions and an. Never Swim Alone By Daniel MacIvor Directed by Amanda Lockitch June J at the Pacific Theatre, Vancouver, BC Daniel MacIvor's Never Swim Alone pits two childhood blood-brothers in a deadly competition controlled by the mysterious referee who they left behind to drown years ago. Daniel has written numerous award-winning theatre productions and his work has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German and Japanese. Daniel received the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for his collection of plays I STILL LOVE YOU and is a recipient of the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre.
Playwright Daniel MacIvor’s most remarkable feat in “Never Swim Alone” is the way in which he unfolds this moving story outside the boundaries of typical naturalistic style. Daniel MacIvor was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in He is a stalwart of the Canadian theatre scene, having written and directed numerous award-winning productions including See Bob Run, Wild Abandon, Tango, This Is A Play, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, How It Works, A Beautiful View, Communion, Bingo! and his work has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German and Japanese. Never Swim Alone explores the trope of the perfect man, the perfect marriage, the perfect life through a masterfully written text by acclaimed playwright Daniel MacIvor. Simple, yet complex, the play places the troubled men in a highly rigid and structured contest arbitrated by a mysterious lifeguard (Sarah Feutl).
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