Bothered and Bewildered is a tragi-comedy drama about one woman’s struggle with the devastation of Alzheimer’s. The play follows Irene and her two daughters Louise and Beth as the girls lose their mum in spirit but not in body. The story tells of the last years of Irene as she battles to protect one final secret from her family as her dignity and memories are slowly stripped away. While her family struggle to come to terms with her Alzheimer’s, Irene’s past passion for romantic literature blurs with reality. She spends hours discussing how best to write her ‘memory book’ with her imaginary friend and favourite author Barbara Cartland (the deceased famous romantic novelist), disclosing long kept family secrets that she would never divulge to her daughters. Bothered and Bewildered is about memory loss, secrets but, above all, love