Season 2003-2004

AGING AND CAREGIVING

ELDERFEST
Produced by Bump In the Road Theatre

A day-long festival explored issues of aging and caregiving through theater including a staged reading of Hannah Free by Claudia Allen, followed by an audience talkback and a first reading of BUMP's newest play at the time, 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
Original music composed and conducted by Music Director, Barry Glick

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.