This is what happened next...
What we've discovered about Charleston is things here are done on a Grand Scale. Grand homes, grand hospitality and severely grand weather. Today, we have admired, from the secure cocoon that is our trailer, a huge rain and thunder storm... one of many since we've entered the South. The loud booms and intense rain adds quite a bit to the quiet of our day.
Our event for tonight was This is What Happens Next which just premiered in Canada in April. Interestingly described as, A journey deep into the heart of the Kingdom of Kevin with an astrologer, a lawyer, an absent father, the embodiment of our own Will and Me, which takes us through the dark forest of addiction, divorce, Arthur Schopenhauer, The Little Mermaid and the life of John Denver. A scary fairytale with a happy ending.
This one man play was surprisingly emotional and entrancing. Daniel MacIvor was incredible, telling a cautionary tale of happy endings and story telling. According to him, "It's not some kind of therapy for me, it's more a sense of spiritual nourishment. I tell these stories based on some very personal truths, and they strike audiences as familiar."
We cried. We laughed. We applauded. It was an emotional roller coaster we were happy to ride on. "genius...a high-octane blend of autobiography, anecdote, philosophical musing and fairy-tale fantasy, leavened by mordant wit...riveting" The Montreal Gazette
Blog side note: In yesterday's posting, I said "Proveta" was one of Brazil's first test tube babies. I read this in the Charleston paper and being that he is 49 and the first test tube baby was born in 1978, some serious translation error occurred!
Our event for tonight was This is What Happens Next which just premiered in Canada in April. Interestingly described as, A journey deep into the heart of the Kingdom of Kevin with an astrologer, a lawyer, an absent father, the embodiment of our own Will and Me, which takes us through the dark forest of addiction, divorce, Arthur Schopenhauer, The Little Mermaid and the life of John Denver. A scary fairytale with a happy ending.
This one man play was surprisingly emotional and entrancing. Daniel MacIvor was incredible, telling a cautionary tale of happy endings and story telling. According to him, "It's not some kind of therapy for me, it's more a sense of spiritual nourishment. I tell these stories based on some very personal truths, and they strike audiences as familiar."
We cried. We laughed. We applauded. It was an emotional roller coaster we were happy to ride on. "genius...a high-octane blend of autobiography, anecdote, philosophical musing and fairy-tale fantasy, leavened by mordant wit...riveting" The Montreal Gazette
Blog side note: In yesterday's posting, I said "Proveta" was one of Brazil's first test tube babies. I read this in the Charleston paper and being that he is 49 and the first test tube baby was born in 1978, some serious translation error occurred!
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