THE FATHER Tricycle Theatre

It has been estimated that there are 856,700 people with dementia in the UK. Many theatregoers will find Florian Zeller’s play too close for comfort. The French playwright (who won the Molière Award for Best Play in 2014) views Alzheimer’s entirely through the eyes of one elderly sufferer (a beautifully understated performance by Kenneth Cranham). The result is that the audience quickly find themselves as disorientated as he is and wonder where he actually is and who the people round him really are.