![Sample our Education journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5932/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Education.jpg"})
ABSTRACT
Dementia’s Journey explores the year-long process of a playwright working with a charity and its partners in writing a play focussing on experiences of dementia in a South Asian community, and how the need to tell an emotionally engaging and resonant story is balanced with the requirement to raise awareness of the issues involved. It explores the demands and challenges of using a cast of older volunteers, and asks if using volunteers adds to the authenticity and resonance of the play's message, or if the artistic and aesthetic standards of a performance are more important.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Notes on contributors
James Kenworth is a Playwright and Lecturer in Media Narrative at Middlesex University. His writing includes issue-led plays Everybody's World (Elder Abuse), Dementia's Journey (Dementia); and a Newham based trilogy of site-specific/responsive plays, When Chaplin Met Gandhi, Revolution Farm and A Splotch of Red: Keir Hardie in West Ham.
Notes
1 Bence, A. 2015. "Play for Today." Living with Dementia, October/November, 24–25.