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The House on the Lake
About this book
'I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.'A criminal lawyer with a cool head and a passion for logic, David wakes up to find himself confined to a small, sparsely furnished room, unable to remember what happened the day before. With the help of his doctor, David begins to coax memories out of the darkness, before the details of a terrible secret emerge.Razor sharp and tourniquet tight, The House on the Lake is a psychological thriller so crafty it's criminal. Mired deep in layers of deception, it's a puzzle of a play certain to engage the intellect and assault the nervous system.
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SCENE ONE
DAVID is sitting on the bed, wearing crisp hospital pyjamas. ALICE stands with some distance between herself and DAVID. In front of her on the table sits a file, a laptop, and various other documents. She is neatly and conservatively dressed with a white doctor’s coat and a name tag. From outside we can hear the distant sound of rain. A cold early evening light streams in through the high windows. Occasionally throughout the play we hear the distant muffled sound of the hospital P.A. system. It’s October twenty-second. DAVID looks at his pyjamas, looks around the room. He seems both alert and disorientated. He looks to the high windows and listens to the rain.
ALICE: David…?
Pause.
DAVID: Yes?
Pause.
ALICE: Do you mind if I sit?
DAVID gestures for her to take a seat.
Thank you. My name is Alice. I’m here to help.
She sits and opens her laptop then taps a few keys on the computer.
DAVID: … You’re a doctor?
ALICE: Yes.
Pause.
DAVID: Where am I?
ALICE: You’re in a hospital…
DAVID: Why?
ALICE: … We’re not sure.
DAVID nods.
You’re okay, David. You’re safe here.
DAVID: … Safe?
ALICE: Yes.
Pause.
DAVID: Where are my clothes?
ALICE: Everything’s being looked after, David.
Pause.
DAVID: So… what’s happened?
ALICE: We don’t know yet… We’re hoping you can help us find out…
DAVID: … We?
ALICE: What’s the last thing you remember?
DAVID thinks.
DAVID: I woke up… here. In this room…
ALICE: Before that?
DAVID: … I was working in my office.
ALICE: What were you doing in your office?
DAVID: … Working…
Pause. DAVID looks around the room. He shrugs and shakes his head.
ALICE: That’s okay… You’re okay… We need to conduct a series of tests… David? You understand? To see where you’re at. I thought we might just start with names and see how we go from there. So… my name is…?
DAVID stares at her.
Alice… and you are?
DAVID: David… David Rail.
ALICE: Good, David. So let’s have a think about how we might go about remembering our names, yes? One way that we might use to remember a name is to use what is called—
DAVID: Remembering our names…
ALICE: Yes.
DAVID: I don’t understand… why?
ALICE: This is just a simple—
DAVID: Have I met you before? [Pause.] Because you seem familiar. You seem familiar to me…
ALICE: Do you feel as if we have met before?
DAVID: … Have we?
ALICE: … Perhaps I have one of those faces.
DAVID: —
ALICE: Let’s just concentrate on names. If you were to try and remember my name what kind of things do you think might help us out, David?
DAVID: What do I think might help us out…?
ALICE: Yes, David.
DAVID: One thing, Alice, do you mind?
ALICE: Not at all.
DAVID: Do you mind before we proceed? One thing…
ALICE: Yes, David.
DAVID: One thing before we go on… I appreciate you are simply trying to do your job and that in the course of executing that task you may have to interact with a whole range… a whole spectrum of… types… but can I ask you, Alice, and it’s a little irksome so I’ll try to phrase this as delicately as I can… but could you, Alice, could you possibly stop talking at me as if I were a vegetable?
Pause.
ALICE: Of course.
DAVID: I respect that you’re her...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- First Production
- Characters / Setting / Notes
- The House on the Lake
- Copyright Details