Care review – this searing portrayal of dementia raises urgent questions for us all

Young Vic, London Alexander Zeldin’s devastating play depicts the gruelling loneliness and confusion of life in a care home Alexander Zeldin’s characters often inhabit the margins, from zero-hours workers to apparently unremarkable wives and mothers. Here is another community of the socially invisible presented by the writer-director: a cohort of elderly people in a care home. Set in what seems like a locked dementia ward, this play is both an unwavering portrait of what it means to be old, a...

By Arifa Akbar