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Women over the age of 50 are often overlooked in entertainment roles. PRIME Productions is trying to change that: they celebrate women in their second act and produce plays with substantial roles for women over 50.

Their latest play called “The Roommate” is a two-woman show that tells a darkly comedic story of an unlikely pair and their self re-invention in Iowa City. Actor Greta Oglesby plays Carol, a newly divorced Midwesterner. She is best known for her ground-breaking role in Tony Kushner’s Caroline or Change, and has performed at the Guthrie and Penumbra Theatres as well as Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a recent McKnight Theater Artist Fellow. Oglesby joined host Cathy Wurzer to talk about her show.

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Greta Oglesby explores comedy and women in their second act in 'The Roommate'

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