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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Love Beyond review – powerful story of dementia plays out like a thriller

Amy Kennedy as Elise and Ramesh Meyyappan as old Harry in Love Beyond.
Pieces of a puzzle … Amy Kennedy as Elise and Ramesh Meyyappan as old Harry in Love Beyond. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

This is the story of an elderly d/Deaf man who arrives at a hospice with dementia to see out his last days. Nothing much happens, outwardly. Ramesh Meyyappan’s astonishing play builds its power on the drama of this man’s inner confusions, with memories crashing in on reality and hallucinations intruding into his everyday space.

It plays out like a thriller, with Harry (Meyyappan) its existential detective, trying to piece together his life story, from the death of his wife (Amy Kennedy) to her recurring reappearances, which appear like unsettling, yet alluring, fragments of a puzzle.

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