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    This Is What Happens Next
    This Is What Happens Next
    This Is What Happens Next
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    This Is What Happens Next

    By Daniel MacIvor

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    Most people hope for happy endings. For Warren, a gay divorcee, that means getting his stuff back; most importantly, his cherished John Denver CD. And then there's Warren's assortment of friends: Susan, a Percocet-fuelled divorce lawyer whose daughters are giving her a hard time; Tarot-reading Aaron, who is dating Susan and who secretly used to be known as Erin; Mike, an alcoholic who sometimes sees his son on Saturdays; and Kevin, Mike's kid who has an imaginary friend. Observing and directing all of their lives is the human will—or Will, as he prefers to be called—who doesn't quite believe in those happy endings. This Is What Happens Next is an intensely relatable, multi-character story that explores the anguish of addiction and divorce as it delves into the fundamentals of human desire and asks the philosophical question, "What happens next?"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781770912021
    This Is What Happens Next
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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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      This Is What Happens Next - Daniel MacIvor

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      Also by Daniel MacIvor:

      One Voice: House and Here Lies Henry

      Never Swim Alone & This Is A Play

      See Bob Run & Wild Abandon

      I Still Love You: Five Plays

      The Soldier Dreams

      The Best Brothers

      Arigato, Tokyo

      Marion Bridge

      His Greatness

      How It Works

      You Are Here

      Cul-de-sac

      Monster

      In On It

      Bingo!

      Contents

      Also By

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Production History

      Characters

      This Is What Happens Next

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

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      This Is What Happens Next © Copyright 2014 by Daniel MacIvor

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      Cover and book design by Blake Sproule

      Cover and author photos © Guntar Kravis

      The Alegreya serif typeface used was designed by Juan Pablo del Peral. The Viga typeface was designed by Fontstage. The typefaces are used under the SIL Open font license version 1.1

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      MacIvor, Daniel, 1962-, author

         This Is What Happens Next [electronic resource] / Daniel MacIvor.

      A play.

      Electronic monograph in multiple formats.

      Issued also in print format.

      ISBN 978-1-77091-201-4 (pdf).--ISBN 978-1-77091-202-1 (epub)

      I. Title

      PS8575.I86T45 2014   C812’.54    C2013-908485-1

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      We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC)—an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,681 individual artists and 1,125 organizations in 216 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.8 million—the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.

      For Bill W. and his friends

      This Is What Happens Next was first produced by Necessary Angel Theatre Company and the Canadian Stage Company in April 2010 at the Berkeley Street Theatre. It featured the following cast and creative team:

      Performed by Daniel MacIvor

      Directed and dramaturged by Daniel Brooks

      Lighting design by Kimberly Purtell

      Sound design by Richard Feren

      Characters

      Me

      Will

      Warren

      Susan

      Aaron

      Mike

      Kevin

      On stage left is a chair, a pair of shoes beside the chair, a coat stand with a suit jacket hanging on it. On stage right a small table with a shelf below where a glass and a vodka bottle sit. These furniture pieces are placed near the edges of the playing space.

      ME enters the theatre through the audience wearing street clothes (a pink shirt). He carries a book and a venti Starbucks coffee. He makes his way toward the stage. The house lights remain up.

      ME

      I’m sorry I’m late, I’m sorry I’m late, I’m sorry I’m late, I’m sorry I’m late, I’m sorry I’m late. That’s the first thing I say when I enter any room. I’m always late. Chronically late. Terminally late. And I’m really trying not to be late these days. I’m really trying not to be late because when I’m late I get annoyed and when I’m annoyed I get resentful and… well I don’t even want to think about where resentment gets me. Resentment is fatal. But here I am late. But it wasn’t my fault. That must be the slowest Starbucks in the city. In the country. And I’ve been around. Twenty minutes for a decaf grande soy latte? And this is not even a grande, it’s a venti—and we won’t even bother getting in to how that happened. Regardless I’m late. But it’s not my fault. It was these two women. I’m walking to the door of the Starbucks and there are these two women behind me chatting away and I think, I’ll be the nice guy, and I hold the door for them. And this is also a little annoying. I don’t need a thank you but a head nod might be nice. An acknowledgement of my existence. How hard is a head nod? How hard is that. I should probably be on the stage. I’ll go on the stage now.

      ME steps onto the stage. During the following he changes from his street shoes to the shoes that have been sitting near the chair. At one point he considers putting on the suit jacket but forgoes it, thinking it’s too formal. As he continues the house lights fade.

      So I know the deal. I let them in ahead of me and that means that they’re ahead of me and of course they order eight lattes. Eight? Don’t

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