A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey. A road trip to the middle of the Nevada desert in a twenty-six-foot-long RV. Based on the experiences of playwright Mieko Ouchi’s mother, Dorothy Ouchi, this irreverent one-woman play tosses us into the passenger seat and takes us on a voyage through the process of grief and the search for meaning and onto the madcap playa of the world’s largest free-form creative gathering as Dorothy discovers the power of art, community, Walmart, and MOOP and the courage to jump back into the deep end of life.
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2019, Script Salon, Edmonton
2023
Playwrights Canada Press
9780369104342
The first production date listed here was for a stage reading of the play.
The first production date listed here was for a stage reading of the play.
Stylized
The fractured unraveling of memory: an unnamed rape survivor has a flashback during her father's funeral. Details of the horror she endured at the hands of a stranger in a Montreal apartment a decade earlier are slowly revealed, interspersed between scenes showing how the traumatizing crime affected her relationships with her family members afterward, and their relationships with each other and God.
Stylized
"What would you do if you met your soul mate - and he was married? Confessions of the Other Woman is the moving portrayal of a modern woman driven by passion, racked by questions of integrity and bound by a legacy of honour. Portrayal of a modern woman driven by passion, racked by questions of integrity and bound by a legacy of honour. A meditation of love - between lovers, between spouses, with our ancestors and within ourselves integrating dance, poetry, contemporary movement and humour to explore the dynamics, absurdities and emotional fall-out of love, and what it means for a woman to embrace personal integrity in the 21st century." - from the publisher
