Changing the concept of ‘ageing’
A group of comedians are proving sometimes you just need to laugh at the woes of old age. Melbourne’s newest stage show, More Sex Please, We’re Seniors!, recently opened at the Comedy Theatre with well-known faces Michael Veitch, Tracy Harvey, Mark Mitchell, Jane Clifton and Matt Quartermaine tackling the trials of getting older.
A group of comedians are proving sometimes you just need to laugh at the woes of old age.
Melbourne’s newest stage show, More Sex Please, We’re Seniors!, recently opened at the Comedy Theatre with well-known faces Michael Veitch, Tracy Harvey, Mark Mitchell, Jane Clifton and Matt Quartermaine tackling the trials of getting older.
The cast recently spoke to the ABC. “We are all of a certain age hence why we are doing it,” Mr Veitch says.
The show follows two couples who meet at the Guantanamo Palms Retirement Home.
Written by John-Michael Howson, the show covers some sensitive topics.
“There’s that slight sense of gradual invisibility . . . people look at you less, listen to you less,” Mr Veitch says.
Tracy Harvey, who plays Mr Veitch’s wife Myra, says younger people forget that older people can have exciting histories.
“Old people were young once . . . they’ve lived through incredible things. They might look a bit grey and not so exciting, but I don’t think we value age enough in this country.”
She says the concept of ageing is slowly changing.
“You can stay so much fitter for longer now. It’s possible to have a 70-year-old gran doing aerobics and jogging.”
It is a story of friendship, Ms Harvey says. “What really comes through is how good it is to have friends and it’s possible to make friends at any age.
“It’s a series of comic observations and vignettes with the underlying pulse of growing friendship and growing older,” Mr Veitch adds.
“As someone once said, youth is wasted on the young.”
What do you do to have fun as you age?
