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This Is What Happens Next
This Is What Happens Next
This Is What Happens Next
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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?"
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Release dateApr 1, 2014
ISBN9781770912021
This Is What Happens Next
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Daniel MacIvor

Daniel MacIvor is one of Canada’s most accomplished playwrights and performers. Winner of the prestigious Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize, the GLAAD Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and many others, Daniel’s plays have been met with acclaim throughout North America.

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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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    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)

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    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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