New play about impact of dementia on Black Britons can start ‘conversation’

Lynette Linton, outgoing creative director of Bush Theatre, hopes production will lead to people getting more support

Part of the creative team behind a new play about the impact of dementia on a Black British family hope it can provoke a conversation about the disease, which disproportionately affects Black Britons.

Miss Myrtle’s Garden is part of Lynette Linton’s final season at the Bush Theatre in London, and the artistic director said the “beautiful and heart-wrenching” production was an important opportunity to discuss the havoc dementia causes.