NEW YORK—Irish Repertory Theatre’s downstairs W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre is now presenting a unique offering: It is an autobiographical study of playwright-actor Michelle Dooley Mahon’s mother Siobhan, as she spent her last months, dying from Alzheimer’s, in a nursing home in Wexford, Ireland.
But don’t be disheartened. It is not all doom and gloom. Mahon shrewdly captures the personalities of those around the place: Helpers, other patients, medical personnel—all adding up to a picture of a seldom experienced place and time.
