Sign-In
Cart
The Art of Disappearing
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780881459418
Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
Published: Sep 9 2022
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Stephanie Alison Walker's THE ART OF DISAPPEARING, now in a sharp and often emotionally vital world premiere...tackles the subject of dementia. ...the central figures in Walker's piece are a married couple and their grown child who has a conflicted relationship with the ailing parent. But...Walker's play...take[s] a fresh and mostly unsentimental approach to the question of how much forgetting and forgiving we need to do in times of crisis....
That confluence between a daughter who lies about herself when she feels parental pressure and a domineering mother who can't face her own diminishing mental capacities provides Walker's play with its strongest moments.
Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune
The mother-daughter relationship is, to be sure, a complex one, with comedians frequently playing on a daughter's horrified realization that she is becoming her mother.
In Stephanie Alison Walker's fierce and troubling play, THE ART OF DISAPPEARING...that realization assumes downright harrowing and tragic proportions as an already troubled daughter is confronted by the knowledge that her willful and still beautiful mother is suffering from early onset dementia....
Dementia (whether in middle age or old age) has become the subject of a number of recent plays. Walker has very skillfully observed the extreme mood swings and erratic behavior that can accompany it...
Walker's play is full of surprises. And it is rooted in the kind of harrowing truths few people want to confront.
Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
Also from
Walker, Stephanie Alison
Also in
Plays
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Miller, Arthur
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Paperback
The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Fondakowski, Leigh
Pierotti, Greg
Kaufman, Moises
Paperback
FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (The Revised 1831 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paperback
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
Ibsen, Henrik
McFarlane, James
Arup, Jens
Paperback
A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
KJV, Pew Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition (Large Print Edition)
Thomas Nelson
Hardcover