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Company in Toronto, Ontario , devoted to new work. It was founded in 1986 by Daniel MacIvor and was managed by MacIvor, Daniel Brooks and Sherrie Johnson. The company's name was originally a pseudonym which allowed MacIvor to produce his own works.
Among the companies productions were MacIvor's Monster, Here Lies Henry and House as well as The Lorca Play, The Soldier Dreams, Insomnia , and In On It (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2000).
The works toured extensively across the country and abroad. Monster, for instance, played Calgary, Dublin, New York, Montreal and Sydney, Australia among other centres.
The company focussed on creation, placing no time limits on the process. They searched for the "clear and simple connection between performance and audience." To this end, their works had an intense emotional impact and a heightened esthetic sense, with much space given to designers (even as the designs, themselves, were lucid and deceptively simple.
The last production was MacIvor's A Beautiful View in 2006, which was also one of the company's best.
See also: Alternative and Experimental Theatre .
Source: Drew Pautz. "Is the grandaddy of festivals showing its age?" The Globe and Mail, 24 August 2000.
Last updated 2010-05-10
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