ELDERSPEAK: THE REMIX!

ElderSpeak is a storytelling program developed by the Double Nickels Theatre Company, Inc. It is storytelling built on the memories, experiences and values of the elders in our society. Seniors tell their stories using various performance styles: improvisation, script-in-hand, edudrama and village griot to name a few. But the real question is how do we get our children and grandchildren to listen? Can we make them understand us and do we understand them?

Well, we are going to try. And this is how our production came to be known as ELDERSPEAK: THE REMIX. We children of the ‘60s are taking it back to the day when we were in the day. Today’s youngsters do (almost) nothing that we haven’t done. In fact, we may have invented some of what they do. And we are going to give them a fabulous Show and Tell. We are coming out on September 18^th at THEARC, so hold that date. We’ll be dancing and singing and storytelling and a lot more.

This is ELDERSPEAK: Our storytelling Program.

Stories from memories, experiences and our values. We tell our stories using improv, script-in-hand, stand-up and griot – just to name a few. We connect by combining the old with the new. We talk about the past in a way that is understood today. This is why we say

ElderSpeak: The REMIX

 photo credit:  Sorrell Greene