In On It by Danviel McIvor

IN ON IT,  a Too Much Sugar Production by Daniel McIvor with four actors, (no names?) directed by Adam Smith

This is an investigation into  the nature of writing for the stage or screen that becomes theatre within theatre. A writer is preparing a film scenario which is performed in front of us as he works out the text but in his own personal reality, a car accident that killed someone dear to him, provides the material for his creative inspiration. As the play and the writing evolve, they both reveal a constant lack of communication among the characters, in the scenario as well as between the two friends. It all culminates as the writer (and his friend) as well as the characters in the scenario try to seize the last moments of the victims life in that accident as the fictional world and the writers own world fuse in a last moment of consciousness before they all become equally ephemeral theatrical beings and disappear from the stage, leaving the audience as the only real presence in the theatre. It is quite brilliant piece of dramaturgy because it captures the essence of theatre but several of the actors were not particularly experienced, or so it seemed, and their hesitations did not serve the play very well. A good performance, however , by the actor who played Ray.

In On It plays in the Arts Court Theatre.