| Excerpt from Mark's New Play |
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Here's a short 'work in progress' excerpt from Mark Westbrook's latest play with the working title: 'Forgetting Dad': In the scene, Robert describes what having Alzheimer's is like to his daughter Sarah. ROBERT: Did you ever fly into the fog? Big grey endless fog, flying into fog. I used to fly almost every week for business, back and forward to Ireland. Sometimes, up there, eighteen thousand feet, youd get into fog so thick, so thick, you couldnt see a thing, and youd think, jeez, I hope he knows where hes going, you know, the pilot, I hope he knows the way, cos, up there, in that grey soup, you think, jeez, you think the next thing you could be flying into a bloody mountain, you know? It happens, I mean pilots have done it in the past in somewhere, I dont know. But its possible, because in the grey, you just dont know. Cos you cant see a thing up there, just all that grey gloop. And you start to feel, uncertain, unsure, maybe a bit afraid, the mountain, the mountain, and just then, thats usually when the grey clears a little, and you can see the water, you can see the gold sun reflecting on the water, and you know youre alright, you know youre just fine, and the grey soon disappears, and youre coming into land. These days these days Im in the..the fog a lot more and Im seeing less and less of the sun on the water, and each flight Im getting closer to the mountain, cos I know its there through the fog
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