when’s daddy coming back mommy he’s not
he’s not why not mami he’s dead shutting
down 34 years ago by 2050 107 million
people will be affected by Alzheimer’s
disease hi I’m Christina watchmojo.com
today we’re going to be looking at a
play that brings this issue to the
forefront of public consciousness can
you tell us what the premises of the
play swansong of Maria the play was
influenced by a ballerina that I met
when I decided to return to ballet after
more than a decade in hearing stories
about her life I became really
interested in writing a play that would
incorporate her into it and then after
that I went to see a production of Swan
Lake and the next thing i knew i had a
story about an older couple the wife
slowly losing her mind to alzheimer’s
while she replays the memories that she
has of her husband’s obsession with this
ballerina that he met so there’s this
sort of the couple there’s a story of
the ballerina and there’s a story Swan
Lake all three stories are about what it
takes to sustain love what sacrifices
have to be made and are they willing to
make that sacrifice what did you get out
of the experience of playing a character
who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
for me I’ve really realized that this
disease can strike anybody at any time
it’s not just an aged disease and it’s
you know something that can live within
each and every one of us
what stages of the disease is your
character going through in the play all
three stages all three we cover
everything and the developing stages are
quite recognizable and I’m very
effective I think the writing is
fantastic it’s beautiful poetry and the
directing is it just brings everything
really to life Carol you know builds it
as a tragic fairy tale so I really sort
of took that to heart and you know
remembered the stories you know I was
told as young you know as a young boy
even though you know tragic things
happened in those stories there was
always a beautiful princess and there
was always the hero and and you know
Jillian is our as our princess and Joe
in his ways is our hero really all I’m
doing is playing the relationship I’m
not playing anything else I’m not
playing an attitude I’m not playing
somebody who’s dealing with somebody who
has a disease I’m playing the
relationship and constantly trying to
reach her what do you hope the audience
will come away with from watching this
play it’s to cherish the here and now
cherish what you have you know hold on
to those those memories there can be
beauty even in pain and there’s beauty
in the truth of that and it knowledge in
it and just being with it the play
raises indirectly or sometimes even
quite directly some very serious issues
like how do you deal with something like
this how do how do people deal with it
and what are the possible solutions even
in the most tragic circumstances we can
still find the magic of love the magic
of your the beauty of life I hope it’s
cathartic that’s what I hope
he’s not why not mami he’s dead shutting
down 34 years ago by 2050 107 million
people will be affected by Alzheimer’s
disease hi I’m Christina watchmojo.com
today we’re going to be looking at a
play that brings this issue to the
forefront of public consciousness can
you tell us what the premises of the
play swansong of Maria the play was
influenced by a ballerina that I met
when I decided to return to ballet after
more than a decade in hearing stories
about her life I became really
interested in writing a play that would
incorporate her into it and then after
that I went to see a production of Swan
Lake and the next thing i knew i had a
story about an older couple the wife
slowly losing her mind to alzheimer’s
while she replays the memories that she
has of her husband’s obsession with this
ballerina that he met so there’s this
sort of the couple there’s a story of
the ballerina and there’s a story Swan
Lake all three stories are about what it
takes to sustain love what sacrifices
have to be made and are they willing to
make that sacrifice what did you get out
of the experience of playing a character
who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
for me I’ve really realized that this
disease can strike anybody at any time
it’s not just an aged disease and it’s
you know something that can live within
each and every one of us
what stages of the disease is your
character going through in the play all
three stages all three we cover
everything and the developing stages are
quite recognizable and I’m very
effective I think the writing is
fantastic it’s beautiful poetry and the
directing is it just brings everything
really to life Carol you know builds it
as a tragic fairy tale so I really sort
of took that to heart and you know
remembered the stories you know I was
told as young you know as a young boy
even though you know tragic things
happened in those stories there was
always a beautiful princess and there
was always the hero and and you know
Jillian is our as our princess and Joe
in his ways is our hero really all I’m
doing is playing the relationship I’m
not playing anything else I’m not
playing an attitude I’m not playing
somebody who’s dealing with somebody who
has a disease I’m playing the
relationship and constantly trying to
reach her what do you hope the audience
will come away with from watching this
play it’s to cherish the here and now
cherish what you have you know hold on
to those those memories there can be
beauty even in pain and there’s beauty
in the truth of that and it knowledge in
it and just being with it the play
raises indirectly or sometimes even
quite directly some very serious issues
like how do you deal with something like
this how do how do people deal with it
and what are the possible solutions even
in the most tragic circumstances we can
still find the magic of love the magic
of your the beauty of life I hope it’s
cathartic that’s what I hope
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