Still Alice UK Tour

Television and stage actress Sharon Small will star in a new stage adaptation of Lisa Genova's best-selling novel Still Alice from September 2018.

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Douglas Mayo has had a life long love affair with musical theatre. He has authored several books on publicity and marketing for amateur theatre groups. He is in the process of developing a musical based on his original story concept.

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Television and stage actress Sharon Small will star in a new stage adaptation of Lisa Genova's best-selling novel Still Alice from September 2018.

Following a successful three-week run at West Yorkshire playhouse, Christine Mary Dunford's newly adapted version of Lisa Genova's best-selling novel the Still Alice UK Tour.

Still Alice follows 50 year-old Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor at Harvard University, as she battles with early-onset dementia and explores the effects the disease has on identity, family and relationships in this uncompromising yet tender portrayal. In 2014, Genova’s novel was adapted into a film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart, for which Moore won the Academy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Actress.

Sharon Small is best known for playing Barbara Havers in The Inspector Linley Mysteries, Trudi Malloy in Mistresses, and as Christine opposite Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette in the film adaptation of About A Boy.

Still Alice has set and costume design by Jonathan Fensom, lighting design by Jason Taylor, sound design by Gregory Clarke and is produced by Michael Park.