Description
NUMBER OF PAGES: 14
CAST: 5 women, 4 men
GENRE: comedy
SYNOPSIS: Once Upon A Merry Autumn is a humorous story set in a nursing home. Residents of the home, amiable seniors, men and women, try to find excitement in their repetitive daily routine. They take walks in the park and have conversations about common things, discussing the same topics over and over again. Their memory isn’t like it used to be and needs a bit of training to keep it going. There is, however, also a special kind of romance in the air, but it is timid and secretive, lest anyone find out. The main topics of conversation are the nursing home cooking, the staff members, who are, naturally, great food for gossip, and there is also the popular TV series to discuss, as well as families, children, and grandchildren. The monthly visit of a priest and a doctor are welcome diversions. The seniors are used to the fact that a resident occasionally passes away, because death is a part of life. But the play ends cheerfully and happily – it is, after all, about love. Love, the spice of life at every age.
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