Strangers Among Us

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

Aaron Bushkowsky is an award-winning playwright who has also written
poetry, film and television scripts, and short fiction. Strangers Among
Us, winner of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, is a deeply moving
drama about Gabrielle and Michael who meet, fall in love, part, forget
about each other, and then do it all over again ... and again. Gabrielle
and Michael can’t remember each other because they both suffer from
Alzheimer’s disease.

For the two protagonists, Bushkowsky quite brilliantly creates an
alternative reality where attempts at communication go awry. As the
characters become increasingly mired in the detritus of recollections,
family members struggle to cope with the new reality.

Bushkowsky, an accomplished craftsman, has transformed a potentially
depressing subject matter into an inspiring and memorable evening at the
theatre. Strangers Among Us was first produced in 1998 at Western Gold
Theatre in Vancouver.