Rowena Godfrey
I remember as a child wanting to learn to tap dance.
I’d take the radio into the hall and dance in front of the mirror.
I asked my mother if I could have tap-dancing lessons.
What fun… to be able to make sound patterns with my feet!
She was horrified. Tap dancing…. Goodness no. Far too common!
The beauty of being in a company of older performers is the kaleidoscopic range of real-life experiences that they bring to the table. These experiences cover everything from the vivid and strange world of childhood, to the unexpected late awakenings of old age. Take our newest batch of anecdotes, for example. These new stories are delightfully diverse: from the earthly, sensual joy of baking bread, to the cosmic dreams of outer space; from an unnerving encounter with a poltergeist, to the risqué glories of adult pleasure products and burlesque. Running as a rich theme throughout, is the possibility of love, and the simple wonder of human connection. As one writer tells us, in her story of funeral rites and flirting, “Amidst death, life goes on”, and indeed it does, delightfully so.