Someone Else

Kristen Thomson

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781770912540
• eBook ISBN: 9781770912557
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Canadian Drama
• Index: Literature

Lately Cathy, a middle-aged comedian, has found very little to laugh about. Everything seems either tragic or frustrating, especially her eighteen-year marriage to Peter, a doctor at a local community clinic. Their list of complaints about one another grows day by day, and their teenage daughter is rarely anything but a handful. Despite a once solid and happy marriage, the couple has hit a snag that even counselling can't repair. While Cathy falls further into a creative slump, Peter starts to fall for April, a troubled young patient who helps him open up. The two are unrecognizable to each other and themselves, and as they navigate middle age they push each other further apart. Can they negotiate their changing relationship and learn to be comfortable with who they've become?

Table of contents

• characters
• scene one: solo
• scene two: therapy
• scene three: outside the clinic
• scene four: at home
• scene five: after hours
• scene six: in the morning
• scene seven: group
• scene eight: peter’s turn
• scene nine: david
• scene ten: packing
• scene eleven: at the hospital
• scene twelve: wipe out
• scene thirteen: phone call
• scene fourteen: the first time we made love
• scene fifteen: what happened
• scene sixteen: peter’s confession
• scene seventeen: what to do?
• scene eighteen: someone else
• acknowledgements