DAILY DISH: MacIvor's Greatness on display
4 AUG/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

TORONTO - It won the Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding original script in its 2007 world première in Vancouver and now, His Greatness — an acclaimed 'new' play from Daniel MacIvor — finally is poised for its Toronto debut.

MacIvor's tale of the declining days of playwright Tennessee Williams, built around an actual Vancouver visit by Williams in 1980 for the opening of a local production of his play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, is slated to open on the stage of Toronto's Factory Studio Theatre Sept. 22, with previews beginning Sept 20, running through Oct. 23.

Produced in Toronto by Independent Artists Repertory Theatre and directed by Edward Roy, His Greatness will star Richard Donat as The Playwright, MacIvor as The Assistant and Greg Gale as The Young Man.

For tickets, priced from $40 to $60 (previews $20) and further information, call 416-504-9971.