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What’s it like to get old? Here’s an answer

What’s it like to get old? Here’s an answer

Ageism might still be rife in the Australian workplace, but Sydney Theatre Company is bucking the trend with a play that features two octogenarian leads, in a cast where almost everyone is old enough for an age pension.

Do Not Go Gentle, by local playwright Patricia Cornelius, is named after a Dylan Thomas poem, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – “rage, rage against the dying of the light” – but uses Robert Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition of 1912 as a metaphor for a group of aged-care residents grappling with the end of their own life journeys.

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Michael BaileyArts & Culture editorMichael Bailey writes on arts and culture, and edits Weekend Fin. He is a former editor of the Financial Review Rich List. He is based in Sydney. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at m.bailey@nine.com.au

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