Plaques and Tangles are two kinds of formations in the brain that are
thought to be responsible for Alzheimer's Disease; tangles are also a good
description of how Nicola Wilson's play is structured, and not always in the way the
playwright, and director Lucy Morrison intended. Megan (Monica Dola) is in her
forties, and fast approaching the age at which her mother (Bríd Brennan) died,
driving a car the wrong way down a motorway. She had a hereditary form of
early-onset Alzheimer's, and as she starts to forget words and get her memories
mixed up, it becomes increasingly obvious that Megan has inherited it. In fact,
concerned about whether she had the gene, she took a test decades ago, but never
told her husband Jez (Ferdy Roberts.)
