I Have Lost Myself ...
inspired by my mother who experienced Alzheimer’s during the last few years of her life.Alzheimers, an incurable disease, with almost one million people affected in the UK, steals our memories, our personalities, and eventually takes away our lives: the brain forgets how to breathe, swallow, pump blood. The human brain is the most complex and unbelievable piece of equipment but it is ephemeral; it wasn’t designed to last forever.
I Have Lost Myself … is an experimental production, a poetic adventure, with text, sound, projection, puppetry and action, into the shattered world of Alzheimers disease. A series of half or wholly forgotten tales, told from the erratic memory of an unreliable narrator, takes us on a journey through a diseased brain, a battered suitcase, a sketchy biography of a disease and recalls events that never happened.
We introduced the Traveller who stepped off the train to confront the fears that he had of his failing memory in a work-in-progress performance which we showed to an appreciative audience at the Theatre Royal Margate, and with continued contact with the Alzheimer’s Society and various other organisations, we are excited about expanding on that theatrical experience.
I Have Lost Myself ...
inspired by my mother who experienced Alzheimer’s during the last few years of her life.Alzheimers, an incurable disease, with almost one million people affected in the UK, steals our memories, our personalities, and eventually takes away our lives: the brain forgets how to breathe, swallow, pump blood. The human brain is the most complex and unbelievable piece of equipment but it is ephemeral; it wasn’t designed to last forever.
I Have Lost Myself … is an experimental production, a poetic adventure, with text, sound, projection, puppetry and action, into the shattered world of Alzheimers disease. A series of half or wholly forgotten tales, told from the erratic memory of an unreliable narrator, takes us on a journey through a diseased brain, a battered suitcase, a sketchy biography of a disease and recalls events that never happened.
We introduced the Traveller who stepped off the train to confront the fears that he had of his failing memory in a work-in-progress performance which we showed to an appreciative audience at the Theatre Royal Margate, and with continued contact with the Alzheimer’s Society and various other organisations, we are excited about expanding on that theatrical experience.
I Have Lost Myself ...
inspired by my mother who experienced Alzheimer’s during the last few years of her life.Alzheimers, an incurable disease, with almost one million people affected in the UK, steals our memories, our personalities, and eventually takes away our lives: the brain forgets how to breathe, swallow, pump blood. The human brain is the most complex and unbelievable piece of equipment but it is ephemeral; it wasn’t designed to last forever.
I Have Lost Myself … is an experimental production, a poetic adventure, with text, sound, projection, puppetry and action, into the shattered world of Alzheimers disease. A series of half or wholly forgotten tales, told from the erratic memory of an unreliable narrator, takes us on a journey through a diseased brain, a battered suitcase, a sketchy biography of a disease and recalls events that never happened.
We introduced the Traveller who stepped off the train to confront the fears that he had of his failing memory in a work-in-progress performance which we showed to an appreciative audience at the Theatre Royal Margate, and with continued contact with the Alzheimer’s Society and various other organisations, we are excited about expanding on that theatrical experience.