Notes on My Mother’s Decline – Performance and Conversation

Late at night, while his baby daughter sleeps, a son makes notes on his mother’s daily life and scenes from their complicated relationship.  He is shaping a play, and a perspective.  Two blocks away, his mother naps, and smokes, and reads, and drinks coffee. She is shaping her existence within encroaching confines. This New York story asks how we come to know one another as parents and as children.  How do we care for those we love, and what does it take to live with – and without them?

Caregivers of people living with dementia are invited to attend a play and participate in a talk back with production staff about a son’s navigation of his mother’s aging.