Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: Here biomedical text describing tabes dorsalis, a manifestation of neurosyphilis is compared to literary descriptions made by Alphonse Daudet based on his own sufferings from the condition.
According to the art: Samantha Harvey endeavors to show the experience of Alzheimer’s dementia from early stages to end stages through a character’s life. She also imagines what it could be like for a person to realize they are progressing through dementia. The experience she imagines hinges on not just that memories and facts are unavailable, but that they can come back as independent agents to cause confusion, disorientation, and fear.
Through an interplay among set designs, lighting effects, repeated scene sequences, and time loops, this play gives the audience a sense of the dementia experience, not just a view of it. The audience at times has as much trouble as the character with dementia discerning fact from fiction, past from present, and here from there.