Successful actors draw on personal experience to create memorable characters.
Coghill is now 72. She can remember lines she learned in school - but none from the TV show she shot just last week. Sometimes, memory dies, years before the body. In Strangers Among us , the play Joy Coghill commissioned for Western Gold, her company of senior actors, characters groped for their lost selves in the scrambled connections of their minds. The play is a love story about two people who find each other again in an Alzheimers facility.