{"product_id":"marion-bridge-27549","title":"Marion Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eA well-known practitioner of Canada’s theatre of the avant-garde, MacIvor had for years wanted to write a brilliant screenplay, but there was a problem—he didn’t know how. Most of his stark improvisational work for the live stage, centered around minimalist sets and props, dramatic effects of light and sound, and usually his own improvisational solo performances, did not translate well into the medium of film. So in order to realize his ambition he decided to create \"Marion Bridge\", a piece of “conventional theatre,” as a vehicle or transitionary playscript he thought he could use as a stylistic “bridge” from the live stage to the cinema. In the fact that \"Marion Bridge\" has become his most successful play to date lies one of the most important lessons MacIvor learned about the vast differences between the two media—between live performance that always relies on the audience to participate with the actor(s) in the active and collective creation of landscape and time within the space they share, and the cinematic experience wherein the creators and actors are absent, and the audience is estranged from the action by its passive consumption of a narrative of space and time always understood to take place in someone else’s world outside of the theatre.    *Please be advised that this book deals with mature themes and sensitive subject matter. Some readers may find the use of language objectionable. (June 2021)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43663876784188,"sku":null,"price":15.16,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3677\/6508\/files\/9780889225527.jpg?v=1762970039","url":"https:\/\/nssbb.ednet.ns.ca\/products\/marion-bridge-27549","provider":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","version":"1.0","type":"link"}