Older women’s invisibility explored on stage

The cult of youth and beauty excludes older women, and not everyone wants to be a rosy-cheeked grandma.
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The Street Theatre’s All This Living! Photo by Lorna Sim.

Picture yourself standing at a bar, waiting to order a drink, and being overlooked by the barman – not once, but multiple times, as if he’s looking straight through you. Or perhaps it happens in a shop, or on the street – it’s as if you’ve become invisible.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts