Age is Revolting by Abi Zakarian

When a group of school kids rebel against their boring music lesson they hit the wrong note and
magically transform into their 80 year-old selves…and now live in a care home. Suddenly age,
and their understanding of it, feels very relevant as they begin to confusedly navigate their way
back to the present; no longer older, but maybe just a little wiser.

Abi Zakarian is an award-winning British-Armenian playwright born and raised in Derby, now based in
London. Her plays include: Found, produced by 45North for their Written on the Waves series of audio
plays; Perfect Myth Allegory at Jermyn Street Theatre for the ‘15 Heroines’ series; A Thousand Yards at
Southwark Playhouse, and I Am Karyan Ophidian for the Sam Wanamaker Theatre at Shakespeares
Globe. Her play Fabric won a Scotsman Fringe First award and she won the Vault Festival Peoples
Choice Award for I Have A Mouth And I Will Scream. Her play, Mountain Warfare, was a finalist in the
2021/22 Women’s Prize for Playwriting. She is a co-founder of the horror theatre company Terrifying
Women, and also created and hosts the UK Armenian Creatives group. Abi is currently shooting her first
short film: Pomegranate, and is under commission with Derby Theatre among others.

Part of National Theatre Connections, performed by Plashet School