Plaques and Tangles, Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London, review: A terrific feat of imagination and fact

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nicola Wilson makes a debut of extraordinary structural flair and adroitly devastating emotional power with this play about Megan, a fast-living, sharp-minded lexicographer, who discovers that she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer's just as she is due to marry. The moral implications of the no-win choice facing Megan and the knock-on effect of having this condition cascade down the generations are teased out in a play of irreverent black humour and heart-wrenching force as the mind of the crumbling middle-aged Megan is jolted by associations, so that in Lucy Morrison's witty, mesmerising production, she shares the stage with her bright, sexy younger self, her fearfully concerned present family, and her projection of her own mother (Brid Brennan. A terrific feat of imagination and vividly marshalled fact.