“The Anniversary” in The Age!

Fifty years on and utterly fed up with hubby: what could be funnier? 

 

With some old couples, you wonder what the story is. They bicker, they exchange cruel taunts. But no matter how bad things get, they stay in unbreakable union.

“There’s a thing with that generation – they just kept going and going,” muses performer and writer Daniel Tobias. “There’s no way they’re going to leave each other. They still love each other.”

Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias, as Jim and Barb in The Anniversary.
Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias, as Jim and Barb in The Anniversary.CREDIT:SIMON SCHULTER

Clare Bartholomew, his writing and acting partner, agrees.

“We were talking about our own grandparents, about how they both used to argue a lot. We wondered why they stayed together.” FULL ARTICLE HERE