You Age 'Em, We Stage 'Em

Annamae Blanco was a stage actress in NYC until she retired with her husband, Will, to Periwinkle County. They both went to Cratchit State U, in nearby Hope's Promise, many years ago. There is something about persimmon country that brings its children back.

Naturally, the Periwinkle Players Community Theater was delighted to have a real actress in their midst. So was Katye, the activities director at The Blau Harr Home for Dessert Years Living, overlooking the parking lot of The Wandering Wolverine IGA.

Katye is required to do at least one activity per year with The Wise Acres Home for Old Men, started by Carol Wise, who no longer wanted her old man to live at HER home. There are different wings of Wise Acres so that the old men can associate with thier own kind. There is Tooth Acres for old dentists, and Belli Acres for old lawyers, and Head Acres for old teachers, and Heart Acres for old country singers.

Katye thought it would be great for Annamae Blanco to form a community theater troop of old women from Blau Harr and old men from Wise Acres. Their first performance is next Saturday night at The Historic Old Persimmon Opera House, Annamae's own adaptation of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," which she thought would be quite appropriate for old people, since what they do, mostly, is remember things past. She didn't remember, though, that remembrance of things now, like lines for a play, is a whole different matter....