Playwright collects ‘memory beads’ to keep family stories alive

June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, and a new original play offers a local take on themes of memory loss and identity.

“Memory Beads” is showing now at Kumu Kahua Theatre.

The play strings together scenes, or beads, from five generations of a family’s history. Joni collects ‘memory beads’ to counteract her fears that a family history of Alzheimer’s Disease will strike her mother or herself…

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