'The Other Place,' now at Dobama, is a powerful story of aging, memory and identity
There are few more terrifying outcomes of life than losing one's mind and memory. As humans grow older, we are ultimately a stack of memories that define who we are and where we fit in the world and in our families. But when those memories and the mental skills that attend them distort and disappear, we are left in a barren, hostile land without a GPS.
As the 50-ish Julianna, Patterson grabs hold of the audience as she speaks to us from the stage of a luxe hotel in the Virgin Islands. She is there in her role as a promoter for a new medication, Identamyl, which she claims can lessen the effects of dementia. But she is more than a big-pharma huckster, since we learn she had a previous career as a renowned neuroscientist.
From that point on the 90-minute play, directed with sharply-sculpted beats by Nathan Motta, allows us to follow the trajectory of Julianna's fevered mind as it swerves through scenes involving her husband Ian and several others including her daughter. This is a bold task that the playwright sets for herself, and it calls on the audience to ride the waves of uncertainty until most of the elements come into focus later. That's when the scene shifts to their beach house, the"other place" Julianna rhapsodizes about from time to time.
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