In February 2024, Jávea Players were pleased to welcome back Pip Utton for two shows.
This new, moving and affectionate performance is about the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease, not only on the sufferer but on family, friends and carers. Based on his and his brother’s experiences of seeing their mum deteriorate and die just three years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at 68, and on Pip’s intensive research, Pip’s character takes the audience on a journey full of smiles, laughter, respect and tears.
Photos: Paul Twomey. More photos from Paul here (originals)
Pip brings the famous man to life. Not just the probable writer of wonderful plays and poetry but a real man who loves, laughs, drinks, sings, dances and cries, and in between is forced to write some words to make a living. Living a double life, as a husband and landowner in Stratford on Avon, and as the great playwright in London. His wife, his loves, his children all are in. It’s fun, it’s moving and it involves the audience now and again in the way Pip excels. It’s just Will Shakespeare; his life and his ‘greatest hits’, performed by Will himself.
