New play about impact of dementia on Black Britons can start ‘conversation’

Lynette Linton at the Bush Theatre in London: ‘It’s affecting so many people … let’s talk about it now and let’s give people the support they need.’ Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Part of the creative team behind a new play about the impact of dementia on a Black British family hope it can provoke a conversation about the disease, which disproportionately affects Black Britons.

Miss Myrtle’s Garden is part of Lynette Linton’s final season at the Bush Theatre in London, and the artistic director said the “beautiful and heart-wrenching” production was an important opportunity to discuss the havoc dementia causes.