Banana Crabtree Simon. Its London premiere in 2018 earned this emotionally honest play a host of five-star reviews and Off West End Awards nominations for Best New Play (David Hendon) and Best Male Performance (CJ de Mooi). It is an intimate monologue where Alan, struggling with early-onset dementia, addresses the audience directly as if confiding in an unseen trusted friend. Despite moments of genuine joy, we see a man crumbling and fading as the disease takes its inevitable and cruel effect on him and those around him.