South Camden Theatre Company presents "Sex Please We're Sixty"

Published by New Jersey Stage
originally published: 10/13/2026

(CAMDEN, NJ) -- South Camden Theatre Company presents Sex Please We're Sixty weekends from November 6-22, 2026. Directed by Zuhairah McGill, the comedy by Susan and Michael Parker is a celebration of life!

Mrs. Stancliffe’s Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next-door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued Bud “Bud the Stud” Davis, believes they come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe steadfastly denies this but really doesn’t do anything to prevent it. She reluctantly accepts the fact that “Bud the Stud” is, in fact, good for business.

Her other neighbor and would-be suitor, Henry Mitchell, is a retired chemist who has developed a blue pill called “Venusia,” after Venus the goddess of love, to increase the libido of menopausal women. The pill has not been tested. Add to the guest list three older women: Victoria Ambrose, a romance novelist whose personal life seems to be lacking in romance; Hillary Hudson, a friend of Henry’s who has agreed to test the Venusia; and Charmaine Beauregard, a “Southern Belle” whose libido does not need to be increased!

Bud gets his hands on some of the Venusia pills, and the fun begins as he attempts to entertain all three women! The women mix up Bud’s Viagra pills with the Venusia, and we soon discover that it has a strange effect on men: it gives them all the symptoms of menopausal women, complete with hot flashes, mood swings, weeping, and irritability! When the mayhem settles down, all the women find their lives moving in new and surprising directions.

Performances take place Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30pm; Sunday matinees at 2:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. The theater is located at 400 Jasper Street in Camden, New Jersey.

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Sex Please We're Sixty was first produced by Play With Your Food Productions in Hemet, California on October 17, 2008. Since then, it has had almost 300 productions throughout the US and Canada and worldwide.

Michael Parker (1935-2019) was active in the theatre almost all his life. At age 14, in England, where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy, for which he received a Best Actor of the Year award. By age 17, he was touring with The National Shakespearean Youth Company. He graduated in the top 3% of his class from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but described his five years of military service as “uneventful.” There being few employment opportunities in civilian life for infantry anti-tank specialists, at age 23 he emigrated to Canada, where he began a Temporary Office Help business, which proved so successful that he was able to retire ten years later and move to the Caribbean.

Over the succeeding years, while living in Bermuda, Grand Cayman and The Turks and Caicos Islands, he was free again to indulge his passion for the theatre. Never far from The United States, he was able to audition for roles in many Florida theatres. As an English actor working in America, Mr. Parker became acutely aware of the difficulties experienced by American theatre companies in producing English works, in particular modern farces. Re-creating the wide range of English dialects is almost impossible, and many of the best farces simply do not “translate” well into “American.” So he challenged himself to write a play which would integrate all the best loved and most familiar devices of the traditional British farce into a distinctly American setting. This had to be a play in which the verbal, visual and, above all, circumstantial humor would be immediately available to American audiences.

The result was an “American farce,” The Sensuous Senator, which was inspired by the then-current sex scandal involving Senator Gary Hart. Encouraged by the success of his first play and the popularity of the British “naughty but nice” concept, he went on to write a sequel called The Amorous Ambassador. The rest, as they say, is history.

He wrote The Lone Star Love Potion in 1999, Hotbed Hotel in 2000, There’s a Burglar in My Bed and Whose Wives Are They Anyway? in 2002, Who’s In Bed with the Butler? in 2003, and Never Kiss a Naughty Nanny in 2006. With his wife Susan, he co-authored the plays Sin, Sex & the CIA (2006), Sex Please We’re Sixty! (2008), What is Susan’s Secret? (2010), Money Matters (2014), Love, Lies & the Doctor’s Dilemma (2016) and Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses (2018).

Susan Parker is a Concord Theatricals-published playwright whose comedies have been keeping audiences laughing in theatres around the world for nearly two decades. Alongside her late husband and writing partner Michael Parker, she helped create the remarkable Parker Plays catalogue of 15 published plays that have enjoyed more than 1,700 productions since 1996. Their plays have appeared on stages throughout the United States and in more than 30 countries worldwide. Known for her knack for finding humor in life’s everyday chaos, Susan writes fast-paced situational comedy farces for community, dinner and professional theatres. Her plays are filled with witty dialogue, colorful characters, and enough unexpected twists to keep audiences laughing long after the final curtain call.

Her debut play Sin, Sex & the C.I.A. provides a playful look at larger-than-life personalities and has been entertaining audiences since 2006. The stage play Sex Please, We’re Sixty was created to give mature actors their well-deserved moment in the spotlight and has become her most-produced comedy worldwide, loved by theatres and audiences alike. Her other works include Sex Please We’re Sixty the Musical; Money Matters; Love, Lies & the Doctor’s Dilemma; What Is Susan’s Secret? and her latest romantic comedy, Sandy Toes & Salty Kisses.

Susan’s own story could easily be the plot of one of her comedies. Born in Wisconsin, she married young, raised three children, taught elementary school for 25 years, met and married Michael, traveled the world, became a grandmother, and somewhere along the way discovered a passion for writing plays. Today, Susan has happily embarked on a new chapter with her husband, Joe, and their four cats in Florida. When she’s not writing, she enjoys playing tennis and pickleball, visiting family, and gathering inspiration from the wonderfully quirky characters she encounters in everyday life. She is currently hard at work on her next comedy, proving once again that retirement and playwrights rarely belong in the same sentence.

While she is always honored when her plays and casts receive awards and recognition, Susan measures success a little differently. For her, the true reward comes from sold-out houses, enthusiastic reviews, standing ovations, and hearing audiences laugh so hard they occasionally miss the next line. Through life’s triumphs, surprises and plot twists, Susan learned an important lesson: Laughter is one of life’s greatest gifts, and none of us should take our time here for granted. She continues to leave her mark on the theatre world one laugh at a time, creating stories that celebrate the wonderfully absurd moments that make life – and theatre – so much fun.

South Camden Theatre Company is a professional theatre company offering high-quality theatrical productions in its intimate 94-seat theatre. Their venue is wheelchair accessible to ensure everyone can enjoy the show. They are a member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, the only state-wide theatre organization in the country.