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Isabelle and Kirsten have been ride-or-die besties since undergrad, particularly throughout Kirsten’s toxic situationship with her ex-SSB (Stupid Shitty Boyfriend). When Isabelle helps ghostwrite Kirsten’s dating-app messages to woo a better match, Kirsten gets first-date jitters and asks Isabelle to meet him instead. But as Isabelle becomes totally smitten with the charming prairie-boy heartthrob Harjit, her role as supportive wingwoman suddenly gets complicated. Like falling-for-your-best-friend’s-date complicated.
An ingenious millennial spin on Cyrano de Bergerac set in vibrant East Vancouver, Someone Like You delivers all the swoon-worthy joy of your favorite early-2000s rom-coms while unpacking fatphobia, racism, and desirability politics in today’s dating landscape. With acerbic wit and passionate prose of Shakespearean proportions, this heartfelt play is a love letter to anyone who’s ever been picked last to slow dance and a profound musing on what it means to be the main character of your own story.
"The thoughtfully conceived blend of romantic comedy and coming-of-age story ensures that you can easily relate to some part of the story. Resisting its thoroughly entertaining charms becomes nearly impossible."
–Angie Rico, Stir
Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican American father and a Dutch British Canadian mother, Christine Quintana is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor, playwright, producer, and dramaturg. Winner of an LA Drama Critic’s Circle Award, Dora Mavor Moore Award, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, Tom Hendry Award, and the Siminovitch Protégé Prize for Playwriting, as well as a nomination for the Governor General’s Literary Award, Christine’s works have been translated and performed in Spanish, French, German, and ASL in over ten cities worldwide. As a performer, she’s acted on stages big and small, in a camper van, in neighborhoods across East Vancouver, and on a farm. Christine is a graduate of UBC’s BFA Acting Program.