By April Dembosky, KQED California Report/New America Media
You could not pay any of the 80-year-olds in this Pacific Heights living room to go to a senior center. About a dozen in this upscale San Francisco neighborhood sit in a circle in armchairs, or shoulder to shoulder on the sofa, a thick book of plays in their laps.
“One, two, cha cha cha!” one woman reads, “Very good, cha cha cha!”
The group gathers once a month, rotating among one another’s houses, to read plays together. Today, it is Neil Simon’s “Come Blow Your Horn,” a comedy about a young man, bored living with his parents, who moves in with his older brother to find excitement.
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