THE ELDERLY ENDGAME We are seated in a big arena, on three sides of a care-home sitting-room, clearly secure – staff tap door keypads – designed for the containment of dementia cases.. Two kindly careworkersare introducing Linda Bassett’s Joan, a well- spoken new resident dropped off by her anxious, nervy widowed daughter Lynn (Rosie Cavaliero) with her teenage sons. The trouble is that Joan does now know, or will not believe, that she is staying. She thinks it’s convalescence after a fall, and is not pleased . Gradually author-director Alexander Zeldin shows us her companions and how their mental planets are varied, changeable and sometimes eventful, especially that of physically fittest and youngest, the roaming Simone (Hayley Carmichael, evoking a damaged being , arrestingly out of control). She livens things up no end with sexual dives at the visiting teenage boys and reminiscnces about lovers but having “no littluns, they all fell out”. Agnes (Ann Mitchell) talks vaguely of an…
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