Driftwood Players presents Super Seniors, Kathryn Shaw’s acclaimed comedy about three women over 105 who refuse to be defined by age.
Gibsons Heritage Playhouse
Thursday, Nov 12, 7:30pm
– Pay what you can preview
Friday, Nov 13, 7:30pm
– Opening night
Saturday, Nov 14, 2pm*
Sunday, Nov 15, n 2pm
Friday, Nov 20, 7:30pm
Saturday, Nov 21, 2pm
Sunday, Nov 22, 2pm
Pender Harbour
Community Hall
Saturday, Nov 28, 2pm
Sunday, Nov 29, 2pm
Tickets
Tickets: $25/$15 for youth
Buy Tickets locally at
Fong’s Market (Gibsons)
MELOmania (Roberts Creek)
Sechelt Visitor Centre (Sechelt)
Harbour Insurance (Madeira Park)
*Net revenue from the ticket sales of this performance will be donated to the Sunshine Coast Hospice Society.
Super Seniors is Kathryn Shaw’s acclaimed comedy about three women over 105 who refuse to be defined by age. At the upscale Fairfield Seniors’ Residence, fierce Elizabeth, exuberant Hildy and song-loving Mildred navigate friendship, identity and independence in sharply different—and often hilarious—ways.
Inspired by Shaw’s own family, Super Seniors pairs irreverent humour with a warm, clear-eyed celebration of agency, joy and dignity in later life. Following an enthusiastic response to an Off the Page reading at Heritage Playhouse, Driftwood Players now brings the Main Stage production to Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons Nov. 12 -22 and Pender Harbour School of Music Nov. 28 and 29.
The Cast
The production features an incredibly talented cast of five Sunshine Coast actors: Ingrid Bilton, Suzanne Doyle-Ingram, Kendall Green, Randi Gurholt-Seary and Colin Weir. Each character brings their own personality and sense of humour to the story, making them as memorable as they are entertaining.
The Characters
Elizabeth (played by Suzanne Doyle-Ingram) — A fiercely intelligent, caustically funny centenarian who resists condescension and determined to control her own fate.
Mildred — (played by Ingrid Bilton) – A gentle woman with dementia whose humour, vulnerability, and love of old songs reveal the person beneath her memory loss.
Hildy (played by Randi Gurholt-Seary) – An energetic optimist nearing 110 who embraces food, dancing, flirting, and life while pursuing her dream of becoming the world’s oldest woman.
Cameron (played by Colin Weir) — A relentlessly cheerful activities coordinator whose well-intentioned plans often clash with what the women want.
Twyla / Reporter / Waitress (played by Kendell Green) —Twyla is the psychologist. The reporter is bright and eager but asks questions that invite Elizabeth’s cutting replies. The waitress is brisk and disengaged.
Jennie Biltek, Director
Jennie Biltek grew up in a family with a long-standing appreciation for amateur theatre and the vital role it plays in rural communities. She has been performing on stage in both dance and theatre since childhood. This is her directorial debut and her second project with Driftwood (Marta, Waiting for the Parade, 2025).
“A big thanks to the many people who contributed their time, expertise, knowledge, wisdom and creativity to this production. It takes an enormous amount of effort to take something from a page into a production. You won’t see any of those people on stage, but know that without them none of this could exist. I also want to extend my thanks to Anthony Pare, who provided invaluable feedback throughout the process. Thank you to my grandmother and the 98.5 years of wisdom she provides – as well as inspiration for Elizabeth’s costumes! But the biggest thanks go to my parents, who gifted me a love of performing arts, who instilled in me the importance of community theatre and who raised me with the confidence to believe I could direct a production.
Director’s statement
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
What does it mean to be alive when so much of what has made life fulfilling is slowly taken away?
Super Seniors explores that question with humour and heart. Elizabeth, Hildy and Mildred may be more than a century old, but they are not finished living – well, mostly. They still want to dance, meet a nice man, make their own choices, laugh with their friends — and, occasionally, cause trouble. What I love about this play is that it refuses to reduce aging to decline. These women have physical limitations, but those limitations do not define them. They remain curious, opinionated, mischievous, funny and deeply connected to one another. Their friendship gives them a place where they can still be themselves.
I hope this production makes you laugh, but also invites you to look beyond the wheelchairs, the walkers and the number of years someone has lived — and to remember the person still sitting there, wondering what life might hold next. Because there is a difference between being alive and living. And these women have no intention of simply being alive.