Dementia Diaries

First run of performances at Little Polka Cafe, Eastbourne, as part of Eastbourne Festival 2009.

An LLL Production
Written by Maria Jastrzębska
Directed by Mark C. Hewitt
Incidental music by Peter Copley

Dementia Diaries is a live literature / theatre piece for five voices by poet Maria Jastrzębska. The drama consists of an interwoven sequence of monologues that take us into the world of a dysfunctional Anglo-Polish family and their Polish care worker who is paid to look after the mother and father, each suffering from a different sort of dementia. Performed by a cast of British and Polish actors, the story combines tenderness, despair, moments of surreal humour and occasional strong language.

Photos taken on 26 April 2009 by Jol Grus
(Jol Grus self-portrait, final photo)

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