Tiny Replicas Script Draws From Real Life

We're proud that Tiny Replicas creators Cameron Mackenzie and Dave Deveau have been featured in GayVancouver.net for their acclaimed show. The article gets into how the show first came about and why audiences should expect an intimate and reality-based approach to the topic of gay adoption:

“Cameron already has a sense of how these characters sound, how they argue because, let's be honest, some of the arguments are taken verbatim from our lives,” confessed Deveau. “He is a really astute director who is also extremely willing to hear out my ‘playwright's voice’ whispering in his ear when I feel an actor isn't quite hearing the text the way I did in creating it. But likewise, he's also good at arguing his points with me, and often winning! That's a rare and precious relationship for a director/playwright to have.”

For Mackenzie it is the ability for both to bring different things to the table and while he admits that there is not always agreement, in the end they have a finished product that he says neither could fully anticipate nor create without the other.

“It's more intimate than working with a stranger’s script, and it of course does have its challenges too,” admits Mackenzie. “Certainly for this one it is so close to home - literally - I can almost hear in my own head how Dave hears it in his because it often draws from our own life. This idea of egg donation from one friend and surrogacy from another is how I always envisioned having kids and shared with Dave really early on in our relationship. I see a lot of each of us in the characters so it's much easier to direct as a result.”

Read the rest here. Congratulations, Cameron and Dave!