00:00I'm here with Matthew Smith, he's the producer of Lost Lear, which is on at the Traverse and has just won a Fringe First award. Hi Matthew.
00:10Hey, how's it going? Good, thank you. So can you tell me just a little bit about the show and what was the inspiration behind it?
00:16Absolutely. So Lost Lear is a show set in an experimental dementia care home where an actress, Joy, is reliving a memory she's comfortable with
00:28and again and again supported by a team of people and her estranged son tries to reconnect with her before her death and has to enter that world of King Lear, which is her comfortable memory.
00:39So it came about through Dan's own experience with a loved one in dementia and hearing about this method.
00:47And so he really kind of took the version of that method, which I think is called the Spiegel method, to the extreme in this show.
00:53And, you know, we worked a lot with Dementia Carers Ireland and the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland to really get a sense of what it means to be a carer for someone living with dementia.
01:06So that was the genesis of the project. And now here we are.
01:10Brilliant. That's great. And what are the plans for the play now?
01:13So the show is was in Philadelphia earlier in the year and it's going to two venues in Connecticut and New England and then North Carolina in autumn.
01:22And we're piecing together what the next year might be after that. Yeah.
01:25Brilliant. Well, congratulations. Lovely to meet you.
01:27Thank you so much. So nice to meet you. Thank you. Thank you.
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