Salt Lake Tribune 'Guerilla-style theater, for and about seniors' - With CHARM actor Jayne Luke

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Salt Lake Tribune 3/09/2010

Guerilla-style theater, for and about seniors.

Salt Lake City's Senior Theatre Project travels light. A couple of chairs, a table and sound system: That's about all this company of professional actors needs to set up performances at unlikely venues, including senior care centers, libraries, churches, shelters and parks.

"Our main focus is to provide good, intelligent theater about the issues of growing older," says Jayne Luke (cast in SLAC's CHARM as Lydian Emerson/Old Italian Woman), a local actor and the founder of the nonprofit Walk-Ons Inc., which launched the senior-aimed program in 2006.

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