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Review: Dementia and Loss, Made Bearable by Humor

Posted on 11/21/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin TodayBy Jocelyn Noveck, National Writer, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In art as well as in life, watching someone lose their mind is an excruciating thing — even more so when that person is still physically vigorous, full of verve, full of humor. One can think only about what might have been. So one might approach a play about Alzheimer’s disease with trepidation — how can it be anything other than crushingly depressing? The marvel of Bruce Graham’s …