Star Court Theatre, Lismore, 2 hours 20 mins (includes 20 min interval)

Produced by: Riverside Productions and Steady Lads
Directed by: Wayne Harrison
Designer: Nicholas Dare
Lighting Designer: Nicholas Higgins
Producers: Camilla Rountree, Fiona Press and Grant Dodwell
Featuring: Ronald Falk, Ron Haddrick, Jon Lam, Graham Rouse and Henri Szeps

Codgers… everyone either knows one, is related to one, lives with one – or is one!

Eavesdrop on six senior Aussie men, some of them mates since war service, as they sweat it out together each week in a gym and are taken on inter-connected journeys that are challenging, touching and very funny. When secrets, differences and loss of trust threaten to destroy the long-established friendships, they learn that ‘difference’ is more a matter of point of view; that ‘you wouldn’t be dead for quids’ and, no matter what, that you gotta laugh!

Women see their husbands, adult children see their fathers, grandchildren see Grandad and the senior Australian male sees himself: whether he be a WWII veteran, full of jokes and denial; a spry young lad of sixty; scared and starting to lose it at seventy; or Asian and still on the outer at eighty.

Don Reid won the Rodney Seaborn Playwright’s Award for Codgers in 2006. Codgers is inspired by his real life get-togethers at the gym with his
card-carrying codger mates.

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