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Daniel MacIvor\u2019s new play New Magic Valley Fun Town <\/em>opened last night at the Neptune Scotiabank Studio<\/a> and runs until April 21st. The play tells the story of Dougie (MacIvor), who is awaiting the arrival of his childhood friend, Allen (Andrew Moodie), and during their visit secrets are revealed that have the power to really shock the audience. I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with the cast at Neptune during a Media Call on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie MacDonald plays Sandy and Caroline Gillis plays her mother, Cheryl, and both are careful in the ways they discuss the trajectory of the play because both feel very strongly that it is best experienced when the audience goes in not knowing anything about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s time spent trying to figure out what the dynamic is in this family,\u201d says Gillis, \u201cWho are they to each other. How do they get along? We talked a lot about secrets in rehearsal with Richard Rose, our director. It seems like this play, on some level, is about keeping secrets, and what we keep to protect ourselves, or to protect others, and how those secrets may come out, and a play is a good platform for that.\u201d \u201cEven in Winnipeg,\u201d adds MacDonald, \u201cmy first entrance, I could hear someone in the audience go, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s her sister, Brenda.\u2019 This play doesn\u2019t spoon feed you things, so you really have to go, \u2018Oh, okay, we are seeing people\u2026\u2019 and it\u2019s not overwritten, or beaten over the head, like, \u2018Here\u2019s my daughter, Sandy!\u2019 You really have to figure it out- and then you can hear pennies drop, especially in the second scene when Allen does arrive, you can hear people go, \u2018Oh! That\u2019s how they know each other! Oh! That\u2019s the relationship!\u2019\u201d \u201cThis play in particular,\u201d says Gillis, “I think it is really both joyous and shocking to see without knowing anything. Which, I think that\u2019s all why we\u2019re being vague about it, because we want audiences to have that enjoyment and that surprise. The play takes turns that I think people don\u2019t expect and I think Daniel wrote it specifically for that. And he is at the top of his game with this play.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s really lovely writing,\u201d MacDonald agrees, \u201cWhat I loved is the united front of [theatre critics] writing about it going, \u2018You have to be in the space to experience it.\u2019 You could feel the audience coming in with that mystery. You could feel the audience go, especially in Toronto, \u2018Okay, what\u2019s this going to be?\u2019 and then they\u2019re completely like, \u201cOh My God!\u2019 I think it\u2019s really awesome that [the critics] came together and were like, \u2018we\u2019re not going to give you the easy answers, the book report, if you want to experience it, it\u2019s from this time to this time on this date. Come and have a communal thing happen.\u2019 I thought it was amazing they did that and that they didn\u2019t give [too much of the plot] away.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s nothing more joyous as an actor, well laughter\u2019s fun, but there\u2019s nothing more joyous than when you hear someone go-\u201c Gillis gasps, \u201cyou hear the verbalized sound of surprise, it\u2019s really, really satisfying.\u201d \u201cBecause you feel as a performer that you\u2019re free falling into this thing, and the audience doesn\u2019t know it yet. They don\u2019t know what\u2019s coming at them, so you can just live in the moment\u2026 that is amazing,\u201d says MacDonald. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful feeling,\u201d adds Gillis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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andrew moodie & stephanie macdonald photo by cylla-von-tiedemann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MacDonald and Gillis have both acted in a number of MacIvor\u2019s plays, but this is MacDonald\u2019s first time acting alongside MacIvor in a play, and it\u2019s been a long time since Gillis and MacIvor have shared the stage together as well, \u201cOften in the last ten or fifteen years I\u2019ve been in his shows where he has directed and written them, so this is the first time we\u2019re acting together in awhile,\u201d says Gillis, \u201cActually, I think one of the last times we acted together was in Oleanna<\/em> here at Neptune, when the Studio used to be at the Dunn Theatre. When there was no Studio here. We acted together in a play of his called The Soldier Dreams\u2026<\/em> I don\u2019t think we spoke on stage. I don\u2019t think our characters interacted. We haven\u2019t acted together a lot, so it\u2019s pretty joyous to do that. It\u2019s fun to pick up on our personal rhythms, and also, another surprise to me, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, these are two people that are Cape Bretoners, which is why we know them, but we also know them because parts of them ARE us. \u2026Oh right, we DO interact this way. We might use different words, but we do interact this way sometimes.\u201d \u201cWe are like all these different facets of [Daniel’s] personality swirling around him. It\u2019s amazing,\u201d says MacDonald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The characters in New Magic Valley Fun Town<\/em> were written specifically for MacDonald, Gillis and Moodie. \u201cI think that\u2019s why he likes writing characters specifically for people too,\u201d says Gillis, \u201cHe loves incorporating whatever unique traits that person that he knows has, the quality that they can bring to it.\u201d Gillis says she has seen MacIvor change lines of published works to better suit a new actor playing the role. \u201cThe person matters to him,\u201d she says, \u201cBringing yourself to it is important to him.\u201d \u201cHe\u2019s very good when you\u2019re on stage and sometimes it\u2019s hard to get a certain wording and if you\u2019re really struggling he will say, \u2018No, change it. Whatever you\u2019re saying is better,\u2019\u201d says MacDonald, \u201cHe\u2019s so not precious about it because he\u2019s always listening. You feel like you want to get it right. There\u2019s a certain type of rigour, especially when you are saying the words that the playwright wrote into his direct ear balls, you just want to be like, ‘Okay. I hope this is coming through’ and, with Richard Rose, he\u2019s so detailed. You can\u2019t get lost in the musicality of Cape Breton because as a director, from the outside, he says, \u201cI don\u2019t really hear it.\u201d That was excellent for us, breaking these lines apart, thinking \u2018right, everything has to have subtext, you don\u2019t get away with just sending it up and having no motor underneath it. That\u2019s a really great insight from someone who isn\u2019t from here who is listening to it.\u201d \u201cHe helped us find a depth of performance that you needed that outside ear for,\u201d says Gillis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacIvor has also known Andrew Moodie for quite a long time in the theatre community in Toronto. \u201cAndrew worked with a playwright named James O\u2019Reilly, and Caroline worked with him a couple times, and Andrew and Caroline were in a play together, that\u2019s how I got to know Andrew,\u201d MacIvor explains. \u201cAnd I would go see every one of [Daniel\u2019s] shows,\u201d says Moodie. \u201cWe were all in the same circle of people coming up, Andrew is also a playwright, and so I was like, \u2018Okay, I need a charming, handsome, black guy\u2026 Andrew Moodie.\u2019 \u2018And Kevin Hanchard wasn\u2019t available, nor was Jeremiah Sparks, neither was Beau Dixon\u2026 so finally at the end of the list\u2026\u201d jokes Moodie. \u201cAndrew Moodie,\u201d MacIvor insists, \u201cI like having history with people. It\u2019s nice. Andrew and Caroline had their first stage kiss together. It means something. History is important. I love the fact that there\u2019s a connection beyond just this production.\u201d \u201cYes. I like to do that too,\u201d says Moodie, \u201cIt\u2019s like, Audrey Dwyer, Assistant Director of this show, I also did one of her shows, but we also have known each other for YEARS. I went to see her in a Fringe Show back in the day. Theatre is like a family. More so than film. Film is not like a family at all-\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a party in a hotel room or something,\u201d adds MacIvor. \u201cYeah, and you get kicked out eventually,\u201d adds Moodie.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moodie, who is from Ottawa, had a play of his, Riot<\/em>, at the Neptune Studio Theatre in 1998. \u201cThat was my first experience in Halifax. It\u2019s a great theatre town. The audiences here are fantastic and I\u2019ve been blessed to work here at the Neptune, and I think this is a great show and I think people are really going to appreciate the story.\u201d \u201cIt feels like we\u2019ve been headed here. Don\u2019t you think?\u201d says MacIvor. \u201cOh, yeah. Yeah,\u201d Moodie agrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Magic Valley Fun Town <\/em>started in Winnipeg at Prairie Theatre Exchange and then played at Toronto\u2019s Tarragon Theatre before making its way to Neptune\u2019s Studio. \u201cStarting in Winnipeg, working in Winnipeg, we were in kind of a vacuum- you knew quite a few people there\u201d, MacIvor says to Moodie, \u201cbut still. We were pretty much on our own, and it was really fucking <\/em>cold. It was like being in a strange other world. Making it there, we felt very isolated, and that was good. Then, going to Toronto was kind of like going home. Toronto is partly my home. It\u2019s Andrew\u2019s home, it\u2019s Caroline\u2019s home. But now it feels like this is the home of the play<\/em>. We\u2019re kind of landing with it. This has been the journey we\u2019ve been on the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacDonald and Gillis were surprised what a warm and receptive response the play has gotten so far, especially in Toronto. \u201cThis play is not the newest, coolest thing,\u201d explains MacDonald, \u201cwe are going in there boldly with a kitchen sink drama about Maritimers. For me, I love the play so much, and I\u2019m thinking, hopefully they will feel the love, but you never know. It did incredible there, it did incredibly in Winnipeg too, but Toronto really surprised me.\u201d \u201cToronto was even more kind of raucous audiences,\u201d agrees Gillis, \u201cIt does kind of scrap people\u2019s preconceived notions about what a \u2018Maritime Play\u2019 is. There are themes that really speak to everybody.\u201d \u201cDaniel is so good at putting people on stage that you see and then you go, \u2018Oh god, I recognize that behaviour. Oh, that\u2019s uncomfortable.\u2019 He\u2019s so good at doing that. It\u2019s not polished in any way, and [the characters] are annoying, and sometimes weird, and they have their things,\u201d says MacDonald. \u201cI think that\u2019s the sign of a good writer,\u201d says Gillis, “Everyone in the audience sees something of themselves in it. And then when you\u2019re acting in the plays too, sometimes, you are like, \u2018Oh! I didn\u2019t know I had so much in common with this character.\u201d Daniel\u2019s plays are a little different, I\u2019ve done so many of them, as has Stephanie, and I\u2019m amazingly grateful and privileged to have stuff written for me. And still, you\u2019re still surprised. Even when the part is written for you, you\u2019re like, \u2018oh, but this part\u2019s not like me.’ And then you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh. But it is.\u2019 He\u2019s a great observer of human nature, and he knows how to translate that to the stage, which is a pretty awesome thing to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Magic Valley Fun Town<\/em> by Daniel MacIvor plays at Neptune’s Scotiabank Studio Theatre (1593 Argyle Street, Halifax) until April 21, 2019.<\/strong> Performances are Tuesday to Friday at 7:30pm and Saturday and Sunday at 2pm & 7:30pm. For tickets please\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0or call 902-429-7070\u00a0\u00a0(toll-free 1-800-565-7345) or visit the Box Office at 1593 Argyle Street.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can follow Neptune Theatre on Social Media: Facebook<\/a>. Twitter<\/a>. Instagram (@NeptuneTheatre)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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