AN IMMERSIVE theatre production this week explores the experience of growing older in contemporary Britain.

The cast of Home Sweet Home includes older people from across the district, including Bingley woman Edna O’Hara.

The play comes from Freedom Studios, Bradford-based producers of the acclaimed The Mill –The City of Dreams, and leading participatory arts company Entelechy Arts.

It is being premiered this week in Bradford, in the Ukrainian Centre at 169 Legrams Lane, then will tour to Deptford and Stockton.

The play is based on the stories and experiences of older people living in all three locations.

It will see the audience brought into the world of the play’s residential care home and taken into a universe that is both real and magical and where just about anything can happen around them.

This includes the the ghost of care worker Iffty’s grandma performing a Bollywood showstopper and the over-stretched manager practising escapology with phone cords.

A spokesman said: “Home Sweet Home will celebrate, challenge and stimulate debate about growing older in Britain.

“The production will look beyond the label of ‘old age’; a label that encompasses 10 million people in the UK over 65, to explore individual human stories and explode some of the stereotypes of age.

Home Sweet Home is performed tomorrow and Saturday at 7.30pm, and today at 1.30pm.

Visit freedomstudios.co.uk or call 01274 432000 to book tickets.