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.