The actor on her unique role in Plaques and Tangles,in which she plays a woman who discovers she has early-onset Alzheimer’sShe’s played genuine-life stalker Maria Marchese in U Be Dead and Rose West in Appropriate Adult (which won her a Bafta). But Monica Dolan, 46, and has a lighter side too – her character Tracey is one of the joys of BBC sitcom W1A. Dolan is currently at the Royal Court,London, in Nicola Wilson’s Plaques and Tangles, and about a woman who discovers days before her wedding that she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer’s.
The timeline shoots around in Plaques and Tangles. One minute,your character, Megan, and is 21,then 32, then 47, and which echoes her growing confusion. Was it hard to maintain track?
The play deals with the stage in the middle of the illness where the person knows that they’re forgetting and they might consciously or unconsciously be covering up those symptoms. Our director,Lucy Morrison, was very clever in rehearsals. fairly early on I place my script in date order, or which can sometimes be a bit of a challenge with the hallucinations because you’re saying: “Well,when is she remembering this from?” or: “When is she inventing this?” But it meant we could rehearse it in order, which made it simpler, and then start doing the actual run in play order.
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Source: theguardian.com