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    Let's Run Away
    Let's Run Away
    Let's Run Away
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    Let's Run Away

    By Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks

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    Peter is putting on a show. He’s a bit stressed. In the show, he will read from a manuscript. It’s a large manuscript, but don’t worry, he’s only going to read the parts about him, and there aren’t many. It’s a memoir written by someone who abandoned him twice—once as a baby and once when he was a young man of thirteen. This person has figured prominently in Peter’s life for over fifty years now, but judging by the memoir, he has not figured so much in theirs. So perhaps it’s going to be a very short show? Again, don’t worry, Peter has other skills which he will share. And if Peter can keep his cool, and if the people who work at the theatre can help him set everything up, and if the audience can just give him a little bit of their time and their attention and their silence, maybe he can tell everyone something about who we really are and who we are to others and who we might be to ourselves when we’re alone. And maybe that can make it all a little bit easier.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateMay 10, 2022
    ISBN9780369103437
    Let's Run Away
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    Daniel MacIvor

    Born in Sydney, Cape Breton in 1962, Daniel MacIvor studied theatre at Dalhousie University in Halifax and George Brown College in Toronto. A prolific playwright, dynamic performer, producer, and artistic director, MacIvor has been creating original Canadian theatre since 1986 when he founded the highly acclaimed theatre company da da kamera, which has won a Chalmers Award for Innovation in Theatre (1998). MacIvor is also a successful filmmaker. His projects include the award winning short film The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a Fairy Anymore. His first feature film, Past Perfect (produced by Camelia Frieberg), premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in theatres across Canada in March and April of 2003. He also adapted his Governor General’s Award-nominated stage play, Marion Bridge, for the screen (directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld), for which he won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2002 Atlantic Film Festival. Talonbooks published his play Cul-de-sac in 2005.

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      Let's Run Away - Daniel MacIvor

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      Let’s Run Away

      Four Stories and a Message for the World Written in Response to an Unpublished Memoir

      Daniel MacIvor

      Playwrights Canada Press

      Toronto

      Let’s Run Away © Copyright 2022 by Daniel MacIvor

      First edition: April 2022

      Author photo © Guntar Kravis

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      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Title: Let’s run away : four stories and a message for the world written in

      response to an unpublished memoir / Daniel MacIvor.

      Names: MacIvor, Daniel, 1962- author.

      Description: A play.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2022014673X | Canadiana (ebook) 20220146756 | ISBN 9780369103413 (softcover) | ISBN 9780369103420 (PDF) | ISBN 9780369103437 (HTML)

      Classification: LCC PS8575.I86 L48 2022 | DDC C812/.54—dc23

      Playwrights Canada Press operates on land which is the ancestral home of the Anishinaabe Nations (Ojibwe / Chippewa, Odawa, Potawatomi, Algonquin, Saulteaux, Nipissing, and Mississauga), the Wendat, and the members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora), as well as Metis and Inuit peoples. It always was and always will be Indigenous land.

      We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), Ontario Creates, and the Government of Canada for our publishing activities.

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      For Fiona

      Foreword

      by Daniel Brooks

      Daniel and I were in Guysborough for two weeks, the early stages of working on a play called Seven Days. I was feeling sick, and Daniel was feeling anxious. We had chopped away at this show, done a workshop in Banff where Daniel picked up a microphone and spoke for five days—long meandering stories, confessions, speculations. I would write it down as he spoke, amending and editing, speak it all back to him, and he would write it down. He told a very long tale about a guy and a Datsun and the murder of someone close, a lover perhaps, the body wrapped in a carpet and taken out to a field—endless surprising details evoking a life lived. And all this done with mountains in the background, visible through the big windows in the studio at the Banff Centre where we worked. And we were being paid and housed and fed. We are very lucky to be able to do this work.

      Months after Banff and there we were in Nova Scotia, trying through some alchemical magic to turn the material we had collected in Banff, and some we had created in Toronto, into a show.

      On the stage in Guysborough, an agitated Daniel picked up a little notebook, wrote something, and summoned the ailing me to the raised stage. He

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