Laughing at Senior Moments
01 Dec 2018
Gold Logie winner and veteran actor John Wood can’t wait to have more senior moments. He is returning, with master satirist Max Gillies and Play School icon Benita Collings, for another national tour of the smash-hit theatre comedy revue Senior Moments.
Geoff Harvey joins them on piano in what has been described as ‘a seriously silly show for otherwise sensible seniors’, with sketches and songs and performers who are old enough to know better.
As they prepare for their national tour in 2019, and to help their audience, the team behind Senior Moments list 10 Signs that You Are a Senior:
1. You still think of “Trump” as a good thing to have in Bridge, not a bad thing to have as President.
2. Your home phone rings and you answer it (actually, the fact that you still have a home phone was the first giveaway).
3. “Having a flutter” used to be something you did once a year for the Melbourne Cup, but is now something your heart does every time you eat pizza after 8pm.
4. You watch “Dad’s Army” and realise the entire cast is now younger than you. On a good day you could possibly pass for John Le Mesurier’s slightly older brother.
5. You can remember when lifts had no dreadful music, but did have a nice man in a bellboy hat who would press the button for you. (What happened to all those men? Insanity is the obvious answer, but didn’t they have a union?)
6. You can remember when policemen used to politely tell you the time, not rudely ask you to blow into things after pulling you over. “Can I remember how many drinks I had this evening?” “Yes, sonny, but I’m not stupid enough to tell you. What’s the time, by the way?”
7. You still refer to television as “Colour Television” (ironic, considering you mostly use it to watch old black & white movies)
8. You have at one time in your life been made to eat rice pudding against your will (either by Mother or by Matron)
9. You know who Richmal Crompton is and that he was a woman. (Yes you do, she/he wrote the “Just William” stories.)
10. You can remember when the ‘bikini’ was a Nuclear Atoll, not a swimming costume that you can’t get away with any more. Or can you? No, you can’t.
‘Senior Moments’, featuring John Wood, Benita Collings, Max Gillies, with Geoff Harvey on piano, is touring nationally from Feb – June 2019.
Group prices available. Check Senior Moments website for a theatre near you. Hurry, book now, before you forget.
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