IN ‘THE FATHER,’ THE DISORIENTATION OF DEMENTIA
In Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Anthony, 80, in the grip of dementia, is a captain ready to go down with the ship. Overhearing his daughter and son-in-law contemplating a nursing home, he curses them as “rats” abandoning him. Pacing his London apartment in a bath robe, he mounts a noble resistance.
“I am not leaving my flat!” he shouts.
But if the battle lines are clear for Anthony, little else
