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Bump In the Road Theatre is dedicated to exploring life's difficult
challenges through the production of new and existing plays.
2003-04
SEASON: AGING AND CAREGIVING
ELDERFEST
Produced by Bump In the Road Theatre
A day-long festival explored issues of aging and caregiving through
theatre
including a staged reading of "Hannah Free"
by Claudia Allen, followed by an
audience talkback and
a first reading of our newest play, which became "No
Place for Sissies."
(OLD AGE AIN'T) NO PLACE FOR SISSIES
Produced by Bump In the Road Theatre
Directed by Carmela Lanza-Weil
Playwrights: Ellen West, Teresa Celsi, John Donnelly,
Patrick Wohlmut and Sharon Whitney
Incorporating community actors from the senior community along with
local professionals, Sissies explores the challenges and joys of aging
through the eyes of the elderly, caregivers and family members
in a series of vignettes drawn from true first person stories.
Created in partnership with the Providence Center on Aging,
Loaves and Fishes, Northwest Parish Nurse Ministries and others.
From Bump's 2004
production of "(Old Age Ain't) No Place For Sissies."
Pictured, l-r: Trish
Egan and Shelley Matthews. Photo by A.J. Zelada.