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Sarasota News Leader October 11, 2013 Page 120 FST REVEALS NEW VENTURE: OLDER THAN DIRT Florida Studio Theatre has announced the Artistic Director Richard Hopkins in produckickoff event for a venture focused on aging, ing Older than Dirt, the release continues. Older than Dirt, A Conversation for the Ages. The town hall panel discussion will include representatives from organizations such A town hall panel discussion will be held in as Embracing Our Differences, the Senior the Keating Theatre at FST on Oct. 14 from Friendship Centers and the Institute for the 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. to identify specific issues of Ages. Hopkins will serve as the moderator, aging and decide on the appropriate commu- the release notes. nity members to interview in the creation of "Older than Dirt has been on my back burner a play that will explore "what aging is really for over a decade," Hopkins says in the release. all about — from cradle to Botox," a news "Sarasota is the perfect place to explore the release says. Culled from real-life interviews, dramatic and comedic possibilities of aging: the play will tell the people's stories in their from ecstasy to agony," the release adds. own words, the release adds. "This will be a play for the community, by the community." A study by the Institute for the Ages shows that Sarasota's senior demographic (32 perAdmission to the town hall event is free, but cent of its population is over 65) will be an RSVP is requested by phone at 366-9000 or matched in most developed cities around the by visiting the box office at 1241 N. Palm Ave., world by 2050, the release notes. "Sarasota is the perfect place to gather information from a Sarasota. booming, but under-represented, population FST has commissioned playwright KJ Sanchez to show people who they will become and and her Washington, D.C.-based theatre com- what the make-up of the country might be in pany, American Records, to collaborate with 25 years," the release continues. Florida Studio Theatre is located on Palm Avenue in downtown Sarasota. Photo by Norman Schimmel