Ageing with Attitude: You're only as old as you ‘CREAKING’ feel

Noelle Brown’s 89-year-old mother helped to inspire ‘CREAKING’, a play that will feature volunteer cast members at every venue, writes Margaret Jennings.

AN Irish play going on tour next month which tackles the stereotypical assumptions we make about older people, took its title CREAKING, from the writer’s response to a phrase her 89-year-old Cork mother, Iris, used.

“I had been thinking about writing a play with movement, around the theme of ageing and older bodies, for quite a while,” says Noelle Brown.