An Unfortunate Woman
An Unfortunate Woman is a work I made in 2005. Here are some quotes from reviews:
“I’ve never experienced anything quite like it… watching An Unfortunate Woman is like entering strange parallel universe. It’s a beautifully done piece performed with meticulous artistry and bold imagination.”
TIMES COLONIST
“An unusual, sophisticated and very skilled hybrid performance… leaving the audience bamboozled at first, then utterly engrossed.”
THE AGE
An Unfortunate Woman is a delicately beautiful tale full of the pathos of half-lives. The intertwining narrative follows three characters - Hubert, Clara and Stanley - who yearn to escape from their past, present and future respectively. Stanley Trundle, a clerk at the Registry of Births and Deaths (death division), is trapped in the drudgery of his daily routine and dreams of a South American sojourn. Dr Hubert Dubois is a psychiatrist disturbed by dark visions from his childhood and whose patient – his philandering wife – tells tales of a lover’s tryst with the gardener. Clara is a fragile trilling woman who plans a celebration for her eerily absent husband, Henry. She refuses to acknowledge the events of the past or the inevitability of the future. An invitation to a party and an unregistered file at the Registry sets a series of events in motion emerging through an imperceptible accumulation of scenes - reminiscent of Edward Gorey, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf - that result in a thrilling climax. Only at the very end does the whole story finally reveal itself.
Running Time: 60 minutes (no interval)
Read the cover article about An Unfortunate Woman published in 2005 in Toronto’s NOW Magazine.