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Never Swim Alone portrays ambition and rivalry taken to their violent extremes, and what better venue than Harvard? Daniel MacIvor's "play in 13 rounds" as it has been called, pits boyhood friends Bill (Daniel P. Berwick '01) and Frank (James A. Carmichael '01) against one another in a series of contests, from mundane height comparisons to explosive verbal sparring to physical violence. The match is refereed by a mysterious woman (Kathleen A. Agresta '01), who, in addition to narrating, also becomes a specter from the boys' past...
...MacIvor uses rhythmic speech throughout, as the men play off one another's lines and often recite lines together. With a minimal set, consisting only of a lifeguard stand and two chairs, the scenes are instead set by words, often spoken by the referee. The beach, the setting of a long ago tragedy, is particularly set by the repeated lines "Here is the beach. Here...
...lines are percussive, sometimes startling, adding to the already palpable tension. And a line from an earlier round returns as the men open their briefcases. One man, it was predicted, is the first man and the other man has a gun in his briefcase. It is here that MacIvor challenges us to consider the price of being first. What do you lose and what do you gain by becoming the winner? MacIvor leaves it up to the audience to decide...
...Daniel MacIvor...