The Memory Show
Opening Night: August 18, 2010
Closing: August 29, 2010
Theater: Barrington Stage Company
This two-person comic tragedy is about the complicated relationship between a woman who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and her estranged daughter who moves back home to Brighton Beach to care for her. As the mother starts forgetting the present, her daughter begins remembering the past.
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August 26, 2010
During spoken sections of this embryonic show, which has a book and lyrics by Sara Cooper, seemingly random notes from a lone piano drift teasingly through the air, hinting at half-forgotten songs but never arranging themselves into a tune you can follow. There are unresolvable struggles taking place within this quiet, gentle music: between recollection and the past, between individual visions of earlier days, and between a parent and child who are both inextricably connected and unconquerably separate.
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