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    Bingo!

    By Daniel MacIvor

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    Five classmates come together for their thirtieth high-school reunion. Some see it as a welcome trip home, while others see it as an obligation, and a few never even left. But as the night wears on, the one-time classmates start to reconnect and reminisce. And the more alcohol that’s consumed the closer the friends come to confronting their darkest secrets.

    Once again, Daniel MacIvor proves to us that just because we’re all grown up doesn’t mean we have everything figured out. His characters are sometimes naive, often crass, but always honest. As they try to reclaim their high-school glory days, these five friends charge headfirst into the secrets they all tried to run so far from.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateNov 15, 2011
    ISBN9781770910027
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    Daniel MacIvor

    Born in Sydney, Cape Breton in 1962, Daniel MacIvor studied theatre at Dalhousie University in Halifax and George Brown College in Toronto. A prolific playwright, dynamic performer, producer, and artistic director, MacIvor has been creating original Canadian theatre since 1986 when he founded the highly acclaimed theatre company da da kamera, which has won a Chalmers Award for Innovation in Theatre (1998). MacIvor is also a successful filmmaker. His projects include the award winning short film The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a Fairy Anymore. His first feature film, Past Perfect (produced by Camelia Frieberg), premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in theatres across Canada in March and April of 2003. He also adapted his Governor General’s Award-nominated stage play, Marion Bridge, for the screen (directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld), for which he won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2002 Atlantic Film Festival. Talonbooks published his play Cul-de-sac in 2005.

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      Book preview

      Bingo! - Daniel MacIvor

      BINGO!

      Daniel MacIvor

      Playwrights Canada Press

      Toronto

      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

      Marion Bridge

      His Greatness

      How It Works

      You Are Here

      Cul-de-sac

      Monster

      In On It

      Bingo! © Copyright 2011 by Daniel MacIvor

      Playwrights Canada Press

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      Cover photo © Copyright Janet MacLellan

      Cover design by Carolyn McNeillie

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      MacIvor, Daniel, 1962-

      Bingo! [electronic resource] / Daniel MacIvor.

      Play.

      Electronic monograph.

      Issued also in print format.

      ISBN 978-1-77091-002-7

      I. Title.

      PS8575.I86B55 2011 C812'.54 C2011-906847-8

      cip

      Playwrights Canada Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, and of the Province of Ontario through the Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Media Development Corporation for our publishing activities.

      For Norm

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Also by Daniel MacIvor

      Copyright Page

      Dedication

      Bingo!

      Production Information

      Characters

      Act One

      Scene One

      Scene Two

      Act Two

      Scene One

      Scene Two

      Scene Three

      Scene Four

      About the Author

      Bingo! was first produced by Mulgrave Road Theatre at Halifax’s Neptune Studio on July 26 and 27, 2011, and toured to Guysborough’s Chedabucto Place and Glace Bay’s Savoy Theatre from July 29–August 3. The cast and crew were:

      Heather Rankin: Kathy Bitsy Cameron

      John Beale: Paul Nurk Kenney

      Marty Burt: Dougie Dookie Duke

      Ryan Rogerson: Jeff Heffer MacInnis

      Emmy Alcorn: Laura Boots Boutlier

      Director: Daniel MacIvor

      Dramaturge: Iris Turcott

      Assistant director: Richie Wilcox

      Costume design: Janet MacLellan

      Set design: Andrew Murray

      Lighting design: Victoria Williams

      Characters

      Paul Nurk Kenney

      Dougie Dookie Duke

      Jeff Heffer MacInnis

      Laura Boots Boutlier

      Kathy Bitsy Cameron

      Act One

      ¶ Scene One

      NURK, a man in his forties stands alone. He speaks to the audience.

      Nurk: We were friends. It was long ago. Pierre Trudeau was the prime minister. We drove Gremlins and Pacers and Volares. Gasoline was still sold by the gallon. We were going to the movies to watch Apocalypse Now and The Empire Strikes Back. M*A*S*H was keeping us home on Wednesday nights to watch television. Disco didn’t quite suck yet and everybody’s mother thought Rod Stewart was sexy. We had just survived the seventies and phrases like the Internet and crack cocaine and global warming hadn’t been invented. We drank a lot and smoked cigarettes and were always searching the house looking for some rumoured hallucinogen. Smoking tea bags rolled with nutmeg could get you high. It couldn’t. We drank a lot. We were teenagers, anything was possible, everything was ahead of us. We were friends. We waited by the phone, we ran to the phone, we made crank calls on the phone. Do you have pop in the cooler? Telephones used to hang in kitchens with cords on them and you had to stand beside them to talk. People smoked cigarettes on airplanes, in classrooms, in doctor’s offices. Reality television was the news. Rap was something we did to Christmas presents. We were friends. We were friends with people we now have nothing in common with. Some of us. We all had nicknames. Sometimes our nicknames were more complicated than our real names. I was Paul. Why did I need a nickname? Wasn’t Paul easy enough to remember? But we were friends. And we lived in a place that we would always and forever remember as a place called home. And that meant something. Thirty years ago. And it still does…

      DOOKIE and HEFFER, also in their late forties, enter and join NURK as he continues.

      Here. Now. Tonight.

      The three men do shooters then whoop. Lights up quickly. A hotel room.

      Dookie: Is that the one?

      Heffer: Is that the one?

      Nurk: Not for me.

      HEFFER hits DOOKIE in the stomach.

      Heffer: Dookie!

      DOOKIE hits HEFFER

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