THE STORY

Michelle and her adopted son Cory move to a new town away from the big city. She rents a semidetached house from the landlord Mr.Culley who is also their next door neighbor. Michelle is welcome to the neighborhood by a quirky but kindhearted artist, Sally whom she befriends. She is settling in nicely but gets the feeling that she is being watched. Charles her ex is hovering in the background. One evening she sees her landlord's son Bobby Jr. watching her through the window. She calls the police. Mr. Culley pleads with Michelle not to turn Bobby in for fear they'll take him away promising to never let it happen again. A police detective arrives and Michelle lies to protect Culley who goes home and rips into his son Bobby Jr. Bobby is found hung later that night. Over the next several weeks things get stranger and stranger. Cory spends most of his time playing with his imaginary friend B.J.. For Michelle it seems the walls have ears and eyes. Little does she know that Bobby Jr. - B.J. is alive and well and planning a glorious wedding celebration for his new bride and son - Michelle and Cory.

THE CHARACTER

Bobby Jr. - B.J. is a very disturbed and deluded young man who has been psychologically and physically abused by his father, who is himself a very warped individual, He lives in a make believe world seeking to create the perfect family. The one he has never had. Emotionally atrophied he is at times gently, naive and fragile a lost, unloved little boy. Yet more often then not he is unpredictable, violent (something he learnt only too well from his father) and at times downright demonic. He is very bright, as is the case with most paranoid schizophrenics. B.J. really struggles to maintain equilibrium. What he needs he takes unaware that he should maybe ask first. If only he could understand that love can not be taken only given. But alas..

COMMENTS

" B.J. was a very complex and difficult character to play. I hesitated before accepting this role. I have over the years played a number of disturbed individuals and I did not know if I had the energy to give up part of myself to another one, especially if the violent actions that he committed were gratuitous. I was at a point in my life where I no longer wanted to project negative energy out into the universe... "

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