Elderly people are not a burden to be dumped
Fear prompted me to write my new play, Really Old, Like Forty Five. It explores what it's like to grow older in an ageist society – one not entirely unlike our own.
The terrible inspiration came after taking my children to visit my mother-in-law at a nursing home. The sheer loneliness, redundancy and inactivity that I witnessed sent chills down my spine; and it's impossible to watch your parents age without putting yourself in their position.
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