David Macfarlane, the author of The Danger Tree, has collaborated with the gifted musician, composer, and songwriter, Douglas Cameron, to create a ninety-minute performance of spoken word and music that, in its initial productions, has earned immediate standing ovations from its audiences. More play than reading, more duet than monologue, more concert than text, The Door You Came In draws on The Danger Tree but casts the award-winning family memoir in a new and moving contemporary light. 

“A thought, moving transport.”

Sturtla Gunnarsson, Filmmaker

“I have seen many plays and cabaret shows, author’s readings and spoken word performances, but I’ve never seen quite as dynamic, unusual or powerful hybrid as “The Door You Came In.” The combination of David Macfarlane’s conversational reading (like someone whispering a story in your ear) and Douglas Cameron’s mesmerizing musoc effects made for one memorable evening.”

David Hayes, Journalist & Teacher

“The Danger Tree is brough to the stage in “The Door You Came In” with reading and haunting music, laughter and emotion. Together Cameron and Macfarlane tell the story of a family, of Newfoundland and of what World War One meant to both. Beautiful and deeply evocative theatre.”

Bob and Popsy Johnstone

The Door You Came In is a powerful work of literature, theatre and music that brings David Macfarlane’s novel The Danger Tree to the stage in a collaboration of song and spoken word. Together, David Macfarlane and Douglas Cameron tell the story of a Newfoundland family and the war that changed it forever.

Hot on the heels of a sold-out run at the Rooms Provincial Archive, highly-acclaimed author of The Danger Tree David Macfarlane and multi-instrumentalist Douglas Cameron will set out across the province this summer with their show. 

The year, 2016, will mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Danger Tree -- a book that Alice Munro once described as “about the best prose to come out of this country for my money.” 2016 will also mark the 100th anniversary of the battle that sits at the heart of The Danger Tree – the battle of the Somme. 

“It’s an old show biz adage,” says Macfarlane. “But in the case of The Door You Came In it seems to be literally true. We make audiences laugh. We make them cry. And they leave the theatre humming a tune.”