Otherwise Bob

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

Connie Gault is a playwright and short-story writer who lives in Regina.
Otherwise Bob delves into the mind of Jennifer, a woman unconsciously
yearning to escape the banality of her married middle-class existence.
The play begins with what is surely one of the strangest dream sequences
ever written. Jennifer awakens from her dream and returns to her life
with her businessman husband, David, but her experience of the dream has
triggered within her a sense of disenchantment. When the Bob of her
dream shows up to throw her world off balance, her life begins to
unravel and reality begins to meld with the stuff of her dreams.

If any play could be called dreamlike, it is this one. Strange music
and unseen voices are indicated. Characters speak in a trancelike state
(often about things that mean nothing) and sometimes appear and vanish,
only to reappear in different guises later. In the hands of the right
director, Otherwise Bob, a play in which the literal and linear give way
to the outlandish and irrational, would provide a magical evening of
theatre.