“From the man who gave us a theatre piece called This is a Play back in 1992, Your Show Here lets audiences back in behind the fourth wall, but instead of centring the art form itself, the centre of this piece is the human connection required to make the magic work. MacIvor, as the narrator, continually alludes to the ways in which he is creatively fluent, where Brooks would bring in some rigidity to shape the always churning open door of ideas, and we get the sense of both MacIvor’s deference to Brooks’ talent, but also a bit of mischievous glee in now being able to choose the thing he knows Brooks would balk at were he here in person. This dichotomy really beautifully captures the way that our brains can cope with a loss of this magnitude through humour, irony, and, in my experience, exerting newfound power to make a frightening new reality feel more like our own.”
Thank you to Amanda Campbell from The Way I See It for this gorgeous review of Daniel MacIvor’s Your Show Here!
