A Comedy in Two Acts
Original Production at The Commons Theatre
Directed by Jonathan Wilson, starring Ellyn Duncan, Robin Gayle Lewy, Michael Nowak, and Paul H. Thompson

Two young couples live in a great old house in the country. Thing is, neither couple knows the other is there. Then one day, the sensitive, romantic Pat (husband in couple number one) begins to be aware of sensitive, romantic Tracy (wife in couple number two). The result is a very funny exploration of why we love who we love and how love survives in the face of the impossibility of full communication.

“. . . [T]he Commons Theater’s performance of A Two Story House was absorbing, humorous and effectively introspective–in short, a delightful night of theater. . . . The play balances drama with comedy, an arrangement that often sacrifices depth for palatability (or vice versa). Thompson manages to slight neither. “
Phil Vettel, Chicago Tribune

” . . . [S]ince thinking comedy is practically an endangered speices, A Two Story House, with its reaffirmation that love can never thrive on certainty, just faith, is worth a dozen Neil Simon farces and a zillion sitcoms.”
Lawrence Bommer, Windy City Times

” . . . A Two Story House by Kathleen Thompson has more to say about the conceptions and preconceptions that undermine human relationships than most of the ballyhooed works on the subject. . . . Two couples living side-by-side in separate realities provide a powerful metaphor for the undeniable face about every relationship–no matter how much two people love each other, they still ultimately inhabit separate planes of existence, making communication and understanding excruciatingly difficult.”
Tom Valeo, Daily Herald