From stage to sound: seniors’ theatre company turns plays into podcasts

For more than 20 years the group, founded by University of Alberta drama professor emeritus David Barnet, has explored situations seniors grapple with every day — such as being forced to give up driving, experiencing senior abuse or coming out late in life.

Other sketches are “very, very funny,” said Barnet, such as one called Love Me Tinder about seniors dating online.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, however, the troupe has temporarily transformed into the AudioGeris, producing audio plays of their virtual performances over Zoom.

The GeriActors troupe was born in 2000, when the director of the Society for the Retired and Semi-Retired — which later became the Sage Seniors Association — approached Barnet while the two were watching their sons play soccer.

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