The innovative Elder/Youth Project is playing this week at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star ) Order this photo“My clubbing days are over,” sighs Daniel Carter, a mustachioed, world-weary 24-year-old. These kinds of unexpected revelations are at the heart of The Youth/Elders Project, a collaborative performance piece playing this week at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. The 13 performers in the show, including Daniel and LeZlie, are members of the queer community and — one of the project’s underlying rules of engagement — not professional actors. Older queer people are facing “distinct but similar” concerns to queer youth: “Sometimes moving into a seniors’ residence means having to go back in the closet.

Source: thestar May 31, 2017 21:00 UTC