Review of Still Alice, Lyceum Theatre

This play, based on the same novel as the 2014 film, follows Alice, a university professor who discovers aged 50 that she has early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Sharon Small does an outstanding job of charting Alice's fight to keep hold of her identity in the face of distressing changes. In one moving scene she wets herself as she cannot remember the way to the bathroom in her own home.

Her family cope with a mixture of patience and love alongside a fair amount of bewilderment, frustration and anger. 

Her husband John (the excellent Martin Marquez) is the hardest to warm to as he puts his career ambitions before his wife.

Eva Pope plays the thoughts of Alice. It's a touching double act as they joke with each other and Eva's Alice comforts her other self.