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Q. WHAT DO American actor Bruce Willis, French composer Maurice Ravel and Canadian biologist Anne Adams have in common?
A. All were diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, the most common type of dementia in people under age 60. Ravel and Adams created crowning artistic achievements while in the throes of FTD; they are the subject of a new play by award-winning playwright Jake Broder.
UnRavelled, Oct. 17-19 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, is based on the true story of a painting inexorably linked to a musical masterwork—Ravel’s Bolero. Stars include Lucy Davenport, Andrew Borba, Larry Poindexter, Leo Marks and Tracey A. Leigh. Dr. Adams and Ravel lived with the same brain disease a half century apart. Boléro was among the last works Ravel completed before dementia stripped him of his ability to compose.
Read the rest at: Performances Magazine Pasadena Playhouse October Issue
Check out the show at thewallis.org
Address: 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills
Phone: 310.246.3800
Photo credits: Photo courtesy of Performances Magazine Pasadena Playhouse October Issue
