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Still Alice
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Playhouse Square
Until March 3
Alice Howland, a professional at the top of her game, is diagnosed at the age of 50 with early-onset Alzheimer’s and is compelled to confront her new reality and draw on her resilience to remain independent for as long as possible.
Alice, played by Sharon Small (pictured) in this adaptation of the acclaimed novel, strives to remain true to the woman she has always been, while relationships shift within her family, in her work and most importantly with herself.
Still Alice is an uncompromising yet tender work which truthfully acknowledges life with a regressive disease.
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