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Anita Reeves is relishing her new role as a worker in a nursing home, writes Colette Sheridan.

ACTRESSES of a certain age often complain about the lack of decent roles for them. However, Anita Reeves, who stars in These Halcyon Days at Cork’s Everyman Theatre (Jul 23-27), is encouraged by the emergence of new female writers in recent times.

She cites Nancy Harris, Carmel Winters, Amy Conroy and Stefanie Preissner. And there’s Deirdre Kinahan, author of These Halcyon Days, whose plays Bogboy and Moment were picked up by theatres in the UK and the US.