Age, like gender, is not merely a biological fact but a socially constructed identity shaped through collective perceptions and interactions. The aim of the conference is to explore age, across the entire life course, as a dynamic social condition and a potent identity-marker, akin to race, gender, or disability, influencing personal experience, social value, and cultural positioning. It also attends to how age, performed in and through theatre, intersects with illness, care and bodily change.