The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/12/the-reservoir-at-berkeley-rep-plumbs-the-depths-of-addiction-and-familial-love/Berkeley Rep's 2025-26 season opened this week with playwright Jake Brasch's semi-autobiographical play The Reservoir, which is an unconventional, mostly unsentimental examination of the parallels between severe alcoholism and dementia. The piece centers on Josh (Ben Hirschhorn), a man in his early 20s who is in all ways but physically, at sea. We meet him as he's just relapsed into alcoholism after his first real taste of sobriety, getting kicked out of a sober house where he had landed after dropping out of NYU. He's in his hometown in Colorado. His mom (Brenda Withers) has given up trying to take responsibility and doesn't want him under her

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