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The Other Place
In The Other Place, one of the undisputed highlights of the 2013 Broadway season, Juliana Smithton is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband has filed for divorce, her daughter has eloped with a much older man and her own health is in jeopardy. But in this brilliantly crafted work, nothing is as it seems. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds as fact blurs with fiction, past collides with present, and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface. The Other Place received its world premiere Off-Broadway with MCC Theater and its Broadway premiere with Manhattan Theatre Club, both productions featuring Laurie Metcalf (Lucille Lortel and Obie awards, Tony nomination). It was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
96 pages, Paperback
First published July 31, 2011
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October 11, 2025
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شار وایت
مترجم : رضا تجویدی
انتشارات افراز
تعداد صفحات :96
March 25, 2013
This play is intriguing for its unreliable narrator and the empathy it garners both for her and for her husband.
November 10, 2015
This is a short play but it was very touching and very good! I'm looking forward to seeing this on stage because if it's just half as good as the text then it will be awesome!
September 4, 2018
That ending, though... Ooof! Very emotional and well written!
November 29, 2021
I would give this a 6 out of 10. It’s one of those works where there are a fair amount of problems, but the strong moments are so strong that they elevate the rest of the material. Also, the production of it I just worked on was great.
August 23, 2024
How fucking heart breaking :(
Excellently written with chaotic conversation transitions that would prove a challenge to believably portray for any actress.
I’d actually like to see this on stage, I’m curious to see interpretations.
Excellently written with chaotic conversation transitions that would prove a challenge to believably portray for any actress.
I’d actually like to see this on stage, I’m curious to see interpretations.
May 21, 2019
F-ing brilliant ... dying to direct this one ... and/or play the husband.
January 31, 2020
Unusual play. Will be interesting to see how it is staged.
July 28, 2023
It has potential to be a good exploration for student actors and directors
January 24, 2024
Stunning.
January 13, 2024
This was beautiful, smart, and heartbreaking.
This play reminded me a bit of “The Lost Daughter” (yes I know it was originally a book, but I’ve only seen the movie) with the themes of motherhood, loss of identity, and the journey of forgiveness.
The dialogue is intelligent and effective, but the monologues given straight to the audience are somewhat of an overused device - both in this play, and generally contemporary theatre at large. They definitely make the mistake of “telling” instead of “showing.” I suppose, however, that there’s a way of staging them that makes them more engaging for an audience, maybe by actually showing the Girl in the Yellow Bikini just as Juliana sees her, and then using some good-old-theatre-magic technical elements to make her disappear and pop up in cool ways.
A deeply moving and tragic memory play. The scattered memories that play out in a Glass Menagerie fashion, and the tragic hero arc of the protagonist Juliana both feel SO deeply rooted in the theatre tradition that it really just *has* to be a good play, but is missing a little bit of that special-unconventional something for it to be really be a standout in its genre.
This play reminded me a bit of “The Lost Daughter” (yes I know it was originally a book, but I’ve only seen the movie) with the themes of motherhood, loss of identity, and the journey of forgiveness.
The dialogue is intelligent and effective, but the monologues given straight to the audience are somewhat of an overused device - both in this play, and generally contemporary theatre at large. They definitely make the mistake of “telling” instead of “showing.” I suppose, however, that there’s a way of staging them that makes them more engaging for an audience, maybe by actually showing the Girl in the Yellow Bikini just as Juliana sees her, and then using some good-old-theatre-magic technical elements to make her disappear and pop up in cool ways.
A deeply moving and tragic memory play. The scattered memories that play out in a Glass Menagerie fashion, and the tragic hero arc of the protagonist Juliana both feel SO deeply rooted in the theatre tradition that it really just *has* to be a good play, but is missing a little bit of that special-unconventional something for it to be really be a standout in its genre.
October 30, 2013
Interesting take on a women who is both studying dementia and suffering from it herself. I'm not entirely sure I like the format of the play with the jumping here and there of scenes, makes an unreliable narrator worse then normal (not that I want a reliable narrator, just to be able to figure out how things fit without going back and reading, but perhaps it reads better on stage).
July 2, 2014
A great play by one of the hottest young playwrights at work today. The ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet here, and all of this narrative legerdemain pays off tremendously.
April 12, 2015
Vels April 2015 : Drama
November 14, 2015
Tricky and abstruse play that moves back forward and forward through time to show life through eyes of an Alzheimer's patient.
November 6, 2015
Amazingly surprising! loved it!
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