A New Look at Aging on the Guthrie Stage

Larger viewPhoto by Mike Habermann It’s interesting how increasingly we’re seeing more positive lights shined on aging and doing it well … gracefully … successfully … vitally or — insert your adverb here.In Minneapolis this week, British actor Charles Keating, is starring at The Guthrie Theater in a one-person show called ‘I and I: The Sense of Self.’ His work, which features insights from Yeats to Einstein, takes a new look at aging, doing it well and the wisdom that comes with growing old.You can hear a short interview with Keating on Minnesota Public Radio here. He has a cool anecdote about how he came up with the I and I name while on a trip to Jamaica. A Jamaican friend told him ‘what you do to me, you also do to yourself … you see man, we are both human beings, I and I.’