THE PLAYS
Never Too Old
Two old men quietly ‘rust’ away in a nursing home, until their sympathetic nurse surprises one of them with an interesting and diverting excursion. His sudden rejuvenation leads the other to insist on the same privilege.
When Alan Hopgood wrote “NEVER TOO OLD”, based on a true story in “The Age”, he thought it was an exceptional case. But he has since been told of others. One, of a retirement home on the Mornington Peninsula, where three elderly gentlemen hire a taxi to visit a certain establishment every Friday afternoon. And another establishment, restricted to the first floor because it was in a residential area, applied to have that restriction reviewed, because its older customers, including a 90 year old, couldn’t make it up the stairs.
Written by Alan Hopgood.
Starring Kirsty Child, Matthew King or Denis Moore and Alan Hopgood.