Lost Souls and Missing Persons

David E. Kemp, former drama professor at Queen’s University, is the
author of The Pleasures and Treasures of the United Kingdom.

Sally Clark is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker whose plays
include St. Francis of Hollywood, Life Without Instructions, Jehane of
the Witches, The Trial of Judith K., and Moo (for which she won the
Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1990).

Lost Souls and Missing Persons is a wildly comic and surreal
investigation of self and identity among the North American middle
class. It features a wide diversity of locales, monologues, flashbacks,
actors in double roles, and a stream-of-consciousness writing that
possesses an unusual clarity and understanding.

Hannah is a married mother of two teenagers; while vacationing with her
husband in New York, she wakes up in the middle of the night and does
not remember who she is, how she got there, or even how to speak.
Clark’s resolution of this dilemma is imbued with an engaging black
humor. Throughout, we marvel at the playwright’s ability to tell a
serious story in a delightfully comic way; even the simplest domestic
scenes sparkle with wit and intelligence.