This is a book vital in all senses redressing a critical lack in scholarship, speaking to the most timely debates in theatre, performance and age studies, and sparkling with its authors eloquence, acuity and insight.
It wears its expertise lightly but uses it incisively, drawing on decades of theatre scholarship and practice, direct contact with influential artists, and immersion in age studies as well as Moores own reflexive role as a theatre maker and spectator to bring depth and richness to its investigation of age and femininity on stage, while remaining thoroughly readable and engaging.
Professor Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick, Professor of Modern Literature and President of the Samuel Beckett Society
This exciting and engaging exploration of veteran female performers is an invaluable contribution to the field of theatre, performance and age. Combining political commitment and scholarly rigour, the book brings together analysis of live performance with interviews with notable veteran female artists, who offer compelling and sometimes challenging insights into what it means to grow old as a live performer. Stimulating and astute, this is a vital and significant text for ageing studies.
Dr Sarah Falcus, University of Cumbria, Member of Academic Advisory Board of European Network in Aging Studies and Co-Director of Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network.
