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Grandpa Sol and Grandma Rosie
Scooping the Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Puppetry, Best of Festival award in Winnipeg, and a surprise, sell-out hit at Fringe Festivals around the world (who would have thought a puppet show about the elderly would have been so entertaining?), Grandpa Sol and Grandma Rosie is a highly enjoyable journey into the taboo discussion of aging, and more specifically, our common fear of aging.
Comic, poignant and very real, the script is a unique combination of verbatim testimony from the Emmy Monash Home for the Aged in Melbourne, and fiction. The audience becomes entwined with the consistently quirky musings of the central fictional character, a nurse, while engaging with the intimacy of the puppet residents and their stories.
"5 stars" -Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg Sun
"Schwarcz is like fizzy soda! A!" - Uptown Magazine
"4 and a 1/5 stars!" - The Adelaide Advertiser
"a fascinating, endearing, funny performance.... an enjoyable and moving show" - The Groggy Squirrel
"the central tension, between life and youth on one hand, and decay and, er, incontinence pads on the other, is beautifully played out.. some serious belly laughs" - Express Media Buzz Cuts
Grandpa Sol is a one hour solo theatrical adventure in a Melbourne nursing home and is available for festival bookings nationally and internationally.
Grandpa Sol is currently accepting fully tax deductible donations to support its future touring in 2009 and 2010 via ABAF. Please contact www.abaf.com.au |
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The Canadian Fringe Festival Tour was proudly sponsored by:
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Upcoming Performances - 2010 |
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