The Other Place - Has Other Interpretations

 The Other Place is an intense, one act play that takes you through one woman's anguish? dementia? or mental breakdown?  Laurie Metcalf, emmy winning actress from "Roseanne." plays Julianna.  At the start of the play, she claims to be a Research Scientist for a pharmacuetical company. She tells us that at 52, "on the balance sheet of life, I'm happy."  The play is an enigma as to what is factual in Julianna's life.  What is apparent, she's anything but happy.  Daniel Stern,  ("Home Alone") plays Ian, Julianna's  loving, supportive spouse or soon to be ex?  What he's definitely not, is at peace.  Zoe Perry, is cast as The Woman, the daughter of Julianna & Ian or the delusional fixation in the deteriorating mind of Julianna.  The Woman is played by Zoe Perry, Metcalf's daughter in real life.  As in real life, there is countless suffering.  Julianna speaks of  "death by 1,000 cuts.  A death so painful it transcends pain as in losing one's child." The play is a clever puzzle for the systemic downward spiral of Julianna's life.  The Other Place is open to various interpretations.  This intelligent play challenges you to solve the painful pieces for the puzzle, and for life.