Leeds PlayhouseEithne Browne gives a superb depiction of the bewilderment brought on by Alzheimer's in Francis Poet's sharp-witted play Frances Poet has form when it comes to dramatising illness. Her play Fibres (2019) was about a shipyard worker and his wife living with asbestosis. The cast of ailing characters in Still (2021) included a woman with chronic pain. Maggie May, delayed from 2020 because of the pandemic,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM on May 13, 2022