{"product_id":"the-art-of-disappearing-paperback","title":"The Art of Disappearing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephanie Alison Walker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Stephanie Alison Walker's THE ART OF DISAPPEARING, now in a sharp and often emotionally vital world premiere...tackles the subject of dementia. ...the central figures in Walker's piece are a married couple and their grown child who has a conflicted relationship with the ailing parent. But...Walker's play...take[s] a fresh and mostly unsentimental approach to the question of how much forgetting and forgiving we need to do in times of crisis....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e That confluence between a daughter who lies about herself when she feels parental pressure and a domineering mother who can't face her own diminishing mental capacities provides Walker's play with its strongest moments.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKerry Reid, Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The mother-daughter relationship is, to be sure, a complex one, with comedians frequently playing on a daughter's horrified realization that she is \"becoming\" her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Stephanie Alison Walker's fierce and troubling play, THE ART OF DISAPPEARING...that realization assumes downright harrowing and tragic proportions as an already troubled daughter is confronted by the knowledge that her willful and still beautiful mother is suffering from early onset dementia....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dementia (whether in middle age or old age) has become the subject of a number of recent plays. Walker has very skillfully observed the extreme mood swings and erratic behavior that can accompany it...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Walker's play is full of surprises. And it is rooted in the kind of harrowing truths few people want to confront.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 90\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42129891164295,"sku":"9780881459418","price":22.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fe52f0420aa2b125ba868ddeee99c8a2.webp?v=1732606746","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-art-of-disappearing-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}