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Someone Else - Kristen Thomson
Someone Else
by Kristen Thomson
Playwrights Canada Press
Toronto
Contents
Production History
Characters
Scene One
Scene Two
Scene Three
Scene Four
Scene Five
Scene Six
Scene Seven
Scene Eight
Scene Nine
Scene Ten
Scene Eleven
Scene Twelve
Scene Thirteen
Scene Fourteen
Scene Fifteen
Scene Sixteen
Scene Seventeen
Scene Eighteen
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also By
Copyright
For Hussain Amarshi, with whom all things are made possible, including our beauties: Zayd, Samir & Nyla!
Someone Else was first produced by Crow’s Theatre in association with the Canadian Stage Company at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Toronto, from January 7 to February 2, 2013. It featured the following cast and creative team:
Characters
Cathy: Forty-five. A stand-up comic, married to Peter.
Peter: Fifty. A doctor in a community clinic, married to Cathy.
April: Nineteen. One of a kind.
David: Forty-two. A community worker, father of two, in an electric wheelchair or scooter.
Vanessa: Fourteen. Cathy and Peter’s daughter.
Scene One: Solo
CATHY enters with a coffee and some comic material on recipe cards. She sorts through them, reviewing/practising bits with an air of privacy, working on her phrasing to capture the right delivery. She uses her microphone and amplifier.
First cue card: Can’t Complain.
CATHY
How are ya? How’s everyone doing tonight? How ya doin’? You know the answer I always love, how are you? Oh, I can’t complain.
Really? Wow. You can’t? Wow. Uh. Wow. I don’t think you’re trying hard enough. Can’t complain.
’Cause I can. I can.
Second cue card: Cotton Warehouse T-shirt Factory.
I’ve started working part-time for my dad—I’m back at the family business working part-time for Daddy. The cotton warehouse T-shirt factory. That’s right. I’m selling T-shirts and underwear. Part-time. I come up with cute sayings for the booty patch on the undies. Crack Addict.
Yeah. That was me. I came up with that one. Skid Row.
Third cue card: Inviting Peter On Stage.
So, I would like to begin by asking my husband Peter to come up here—I’d like to welcome my husband Peter up here on stage with me at this point in the evening. This is going to be very special because he’s not used to being on stage. And, Peter, you’d better plug your ears because I am going to talk about you quite a bit: I’m going to talk about our relationship. I am going to talk about our sex life. I am going to— Well, I think that’s all I need to tell you for now.
Scene Two: Therapy
Projected title: Why are you here?
He shrugs. She rolls her eyes.
PETER
I don’t know what to say.
Pause.
CATHY
I am here because I think we could lose our marriage.
Pause.
PETER
I am here because Cathy wanted me to come.
Projected title: What do you want?
CATHY
I want to be hilarious, like I used to be. When I was funny, he didn’t have a problem with me. But I got a little depressed, started slowing down and it’s like I hit the off
switch on Peter. But I just can’t see the humour. I’m not sharp. Right now, I wish I’d never taken up comedy. I wish I’d just gone to school and stopped showing off. Most of the time people laugh, of course, but when there’s no reaction—or outright hostility, you can get that, too—you do wonder: What am I doing here? Why am I doing this to myself? Why can’t you act like a normal woman?
It’s not funny to be a comedian. It hurts.
Pause.
I’m kidding.
PETER
I’d like to be happily married. To someone who could handle the real ups and downs. Like my mother.
Projected title: "We finally came here because . . .