But I can assure you, it takes a place like Beeston To grow the best peach, you.
Jimmy & Rita Wardman
We've been together a very long time. 64 year and I treasure her. I love her so my poem to her, my wife Rita, it goes like this.
If I had a cabbage,
I would cut it into two.
I'd give the leaves to anybody,
but just save the heart for you.
Apples grow in Florida.
Oranges grow there too.
But I can assure you, it takes a place like Beeston
To grow the best peach, you.
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.