Academy Theatre, Resurgence Productions Explore A Family Dealing With Alzheimer’s

The Academy Theatre’s production of “Things That Hurt” runs through Nov. 12

Courtesy of Robert Drake

The struggles that affect people at the end of life is universal even for the people you look up to.

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That’s explored in the Academy Theatre and Resurgence Productions’ co-presentation of the play “Things That Hurt.” The lead character Edward Lewis is something of a Civil Rights icon as both a physician and as an Olympic athlete, but his family has become undone by his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.