Jonathon Paterson gets an actorly one-man workout in Daniel MacIvor’s House on November 6
Willow Lewmos directs the darkly comedic solo show as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Jonathon Paterson in House. Photo by Katherine Wheeler
The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival presents House at SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre on November 6 at 8:30 pm
NOT BE MISTAKEN for the identically titled TV series about a misanthropic medical genius or the 1985 cult horror-comedy flick starring William Katt, Daniel MacIvor’s House is a solo show that seems designed to provide its star with a serious workout, acting-wise.
The playwright himself starred in a 1995 film adapatation of House, which earned two Genie Award nominations.
As described by Backstage, “MacIvor's script veers unpredictably from oddball comic pantomime to straightforward narrative, from wacky expressionism and free-floating surrealism to something very like standup comedy.”
Handling all of that in a one-night-only mounting as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is the challenge before Jonathon Paterson, who is no newcomer to the business of one-man performances. In fact, Paterson presented his very own solo show, How I Met My Mother, as part of the same fest last year.
Willow Lewmos directs the darkly comedic show, in which a man named Victor, addressing the audience directly, holds forth on his dead-end job cleaning septic tanks, his dead-end marriage to a woman who can’t stand him, and his dead-end life in general.
For more on House and other performances at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, visit the fest’s website. 
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