RIDING Lights Theatre Company are bringing Simeon’s Watch to Shirley Baptist Church on December 10.
Both comic and moving, Simeon’s Watch looks at three generations of one farming family as they cope with the process of growing older.
Leah keeps losing things. First it was her knitting, then the sheep, and now her father keeps wandering off. She frequently loses her temper and some days she thinks she’s losing her mind.
Or is it her father Simeon who’s doing that? Staring out of the window, muttering about angels, waiting with unshakeable conviction for ‘God knows what’. It’s all a game to Leah’s daughter, which only makes things worse.
Something has to change.
As the nights draw in, watching her father’s dementia slow him down and her daughter’s future race ahead, Leah seems to be waiting too - but for what?
Written by Bridget Foreman (In Fog and Falling Snow, Inheritance) the play is part of Riding Lights Unwrapping the Present project.
Through a series of drama workshops, the company worked with people living with dementia, as well as their families and carers.
Tickets from 01904 613000, or online at ridinglights.org/simeon.
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