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New Interview Series on Working Quinquagenarians on Up — Sally Gelardin | December 9, 2011
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For Baby Boomers, Aging Is The Next Frontier — Laura Paull, Huffington Post | November 27, 2011
S.F. conference finds poetry, art, music in aging process — Steven Friedman, Jweekly.com | November 23, 2011
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CLASSIC THEATER PREVIEWS
Preview a five-minute sequence in which Lear comes to accept his fate; the scene conveys both the wisdom that comes with life’s harsh lessons as well as the ability to arrive at that knowledge through compassion and understanding. It is one of a dozen scenes to be performed by members of the Stanford community in the Classic Theater segments of the Conference Program. “The lesson here is that age can seem like an awful thing,”says Rush Rehm, a professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford who is directing the performances as a continuation of his Stanford Summer Theater program. “But if we live through it, we may be able to come to a deeper understanding of how life works.”
Read the full article by Rush Rehm from Stanford University’s Humanities website: Classical Theater Offers Perspectives on Aging