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Plays that Deal with Alzheimer's or Dementia

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Can anyone name some plays that deal with either of those two topics?

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The Waverly Gallery

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A great little one act play called, "Nora's Lost".
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The Other Place

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The Father

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The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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The Humans had a character with it.

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Plays that Deal with Alzheimer's or Dementia#10
Posted: 6/27/19 at 12:35pm

Animal was similar to The Humans in that regard

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
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All the plays in The Apple Family Cycle by Richard Nelson deal with it.

Updated On: 6/27/19 at 01:58 PM
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King Lear. 

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