Before I Forget review – actors shine in moving story of dementia, language and legacy

Summary

Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne When the three leads share the stage, this poignant new work crackles with energy and wit. But it sags in the moments between Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Some theatrical ideas come with poignancy and depth baked into their conceit, as if a playwright need only set the characters down in a situation for the work to write itself. Before I Forget, the tale of three generations of First Nations women grappling with the early-onset dementia of their matriarch – a famed linguist and academic who holds decades of ancestral knowledge in her…

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