When Jill Daum’s husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the playwright found catharsis by writing stage scenes that mirrored her experience.

Those scenes would become part of Forget About Tomorrow, which tells the story of a family dealing with the degenerative disease.

Daum began writing the play in 2014 after her husband John Mann — frontman of the Canadian rock band Spirit of the West — was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. 

“I started to write scenes about