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| Angie with script for The Twelve Days of Christmas |
Hi, Brian.
Chartwell contacted the press, the local MPP and
MP about the play and I had 2 telephone interviews.
Angie
From The Aurora Banner….
Angie Rose-Carnegie spent most of her career
as an accountant. The only professional writing she did was for handbooks and
reports.
In her personal life, Rose-Carnegie has been a
prolific writer of poems and short stories since she was a teenager. This side
of her life always remained a hobby, which she keeps up to this day as a
resident of Chartwell Hollandview Trail Retirement Residence.
Even after suffering a stroke a few years back,
she kept writing. In fact, she dictated a short story to a friend over the
phone “by the light of the call bell” while still in the ICU.
Angie Rose-Carnegie spent most of her career as an
accountant. The only professional writing she did was for handbooks and
reports.
In her personal life, Rose-Carnegie has been a
prolific writer of poems and short stories since she was a teenager. This side
of her life always remained a hobby, which she keeps up to this day as a
resident of Chartwell Hollandview Trail Retirement Residence.
Even after suffering a stroke a few years back,
she kept writing. In fact, she dictated a short story to a friend over the
phone “by the light of the call bell” while still in the ICU.
This weekend, one of the 70-year-old’s oldest
wishes is coming true: she’ll be seeing a play that she wrote performed as a
stage production.
“I had a bucket list before my stroke and one of
them was to see my play performed as a real stage play,” she said. “I’ll never
be able to do most of the other things on my bucket list because I’m now in a
wheelchair. This is one thing I could still accomplish.”
This Saturday, Dec. 6, Rose-Carnegie’s original
play The Twelve Days of Christmas will be performed twice at Chartwell Park Place. The first show is at 2 p.m., and the
second is at 7 p.m. Both shows are free, but attendees are asked to RSVP
to LCiarello@chartwell.com as
capacity is limited.
The play follows a woman who has been diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s through her and her family’s journey of care and connection.
She said the idea was to show how this kind of diagnosis can affect not just
the patient, but everyone in their lives.
“Most of us know somebody who has been affected by
dementia, and the play resonates with them,” she said. “It’s poignant but it
also has some humour, because you can find humour even in some of the most dire
situations.” …
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