Dementia Diaries

Dementia is certainly a tough subject for comedy, almost everyone is affected by it and knows someone who is living with dementia. There isn’t an easy way to explore something as tricky and challenging as dementia. As the late Sir Terry Prachett said, "If there is indeed an emerging sense – finally – that we’ve stopped pussy footing around dementia and can now bear to utter its name, we nevertheless find a cloud of unknowing persists.”

Using immersive, verbatim (a form of documented theatre in which plays are constructed from the precise words spoken by people interviewed) and other theatrical forms such as labyrinths, the performance explores the healing role of comedy for those living with dementia.

Resembling a cerebral cortex, the labyrinth’s pathway provides profound meditative experiences. The maze provides a perfect place for people living with dementia to find a sense of wellness and calm.

Participants are invited to be lost and found in the labyrinth of laughter.