COSY
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Tue 8 Mar–Sat 12 Mar
Botox, liposuction, facelifts, faddy diets, creams, lotions and blatant lying – there are countless ways in which we attempt to convince the world we are still in our prime, but who are we really fooling? Old age – who needs it? But look at the alternative. Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Is there anything funny about getting old? Kaite O’Reilly seems to think so and Cosy takes a darkly humorous look at the joys and humiliations of old age and its close companion mortality. The play centres around Rose who, in her autumn years, feels invisible. Knowing death is inevitable, Rose wants a grand finale, bold and invigorating, but her plan is opposed by her three warring daughters. Everyone seems to have an opinion on how Rose should depart this earth – even her precocious granddaughter and the strange woman taking refuge in the garden.
O’Reilly is a prolific writer who has won accolades for her work – including the Peggy Ramsay Award, Manchester Evening News Best Play of 2004, and the International Susan Smith Blackburn Award for The Almond and the Seahorse (Sherman Cymru).
Cosy tackles our obsession with eternal youth head-on, and asks the question: whose life (or death) is it anyway?
Tickets: £10-£14. Info: 029 2063 6464 / www.wmc.org.uk (LN)