THE CHARACTERS

Diana is Gabe and Natalie’s mother and Dan’s wife. On the surface she appears to be a smart, successful woman with a good lifestyle and loving family. Diana also has bipolar disorder, and this affects all those around her.

Gabe is Diana's and Dan’s son. Almost eighteen, he is smart, savvy, a little rebellious, and his mother adores him. The two are very close.

Dan is Diana's husband and Natalie and Gabe’s father. He is a loving husband and father and is desperate to help Diana get well and return to being the woman he married years ago.

Natalie is Diana and Dan’s daughter, and Gabe’s sister. She is sixteen and trying to be perfect, but is struggling. She especially feels that she cannot get her mother’s attention, which is focussed on Gabe.

Henry is Natalie’s friend and would-be boyfriend. He is a musician, a romantic, a slacker and a ‘philosopher king.’ He truly ‘sees’ Natalie, something she doesn’t feel that her family do.

Doctor: Ageless, smart and focussed, the doctor is there to offer all that modern medicine has available to help Diana get well.