"As she launches into her poignant monologue about life, death and the business of getting old, she hears a baby cry. The newborn sleeps through the rest of the show, but the performer, who is newly pregnant herself, feels as though she is speaking directly to this child and its young family. It framed the whole show as a conversation with this baby, McGee says: This is my message for you about your adult life."
"Age Is a Feeling is written from the perspective of a 25-year-old speculating on her future, considering the choices, major and minor, that may or may not lead to a fulfilling life. Who can say how everything will play out: the feuds, affairs and health scares, the fragile friendships and creaking bones? The show was a bomb to say life is long and the die isn't cast, she says."
"Age Is a Feeling has been performed in 10 languages in China, Chile, Turkey and beyond by actors ranging from their mid-20s to mid-50s, and somehow it always connects. When we did it in Edinburgh, I could see everybody's faces and there would be men in their 70s wiping tears. For it to be moving people who weren't in my age bracket was amazing."
Haley McGee performs Age Is a Feeling as a solo monologue in which a 25-year-old imagines future choices, relationships, health, and aging. A crying newborn during a Toronto performance transforms the piece into a direct address to a future child and soothes anxieties about adult decisions. McGee, newly pregnant at that performance, now envisions her one-year-old daughter as the target audience for a London revival. The show insists that missing expected milestones does not negate a meaningful life. Translated and performed internationally, the piece resonates emotionally across multiple age groups.
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