Inner Voices - Sex, Intimacy, and Aging
In this poignant performance, Hedda now comes out from her usual director's role and emerges as an actor in this new and exciting venture on stage.

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This performance premiered at the Sarasolo Festival in Sarasota, Florida on February 4, 2018 and won the Sarasolo Queen's Medal For Valour Award. Performances of the play can be booked alone or accompanied by a topic discussion. The play was written and performed by Hedda Matza- Haughton, if you are interested in booking a performance of Inner Voices: Sex, Intimacy, and Aging please contact her here.

Bring this dynamic play to your community, organization, or business. Contact Hedda via email or by phone 941-923-7477. The play can be performed on its own or there can also be a half hour question and answer and discussion with Hedda and all her characters after the play is performed.

Audience Quotes:

Our participants were engaged the entire performance. She combined tough issues facing older adults with humor and this stimulated questions not normally asked after the one-woman-show.
- Lynne Anast, Director Friendship Center for Aging Studies

In a time when the problems of aging are often overlooked or dismissed, Hedda Matza-Haughton is a voice that needs to be heard. She combines brilliant humor with the poignancy of very real, often unspoken issues that demand acknowledgment.
- Dr. Toni LaMotta, Conscious Aging Connection

Hedda Matza-Haughton delivers a dynamic presentation in her original play, Inner Voices: Sex, Intimacy and Aging. She brings her different characters to life and makes their journeys resonate with everyone in the audience; whether it is laughter, tears or intimacy that is very authentic. Hedda knows how to make aging a universal story that breaks your heart and celebrates life.
- Susan Goldfarb, Executive Director, The Longboat Key Education Center

An animated joy throughout the entire performance. Hedda Matza-Haughton challenges us to think and reconsider long-held assumptions about sex as we age. Brava!
- Tess Koncick, Attorney

Must see original, hilarious, provocative, and definitely "out of the box" theatre.
- Sophia LaRusso, Community Volunteer

This piece touches your heart and thrills your soul.
- Louise M. Stinespring, Ph.D. Acting Coach

Hedda Matza-Haughton, LCSW is an actor, drama director, teaching artist, consultant and health educator who has been integrating drama into her work in schools and other community settings locally and nationally for over 25 years. She has also performed monologues on number of life issues, as part of education and prevention programs. Inner Voices: Sex, Intimacy, and Aging is her first solo performed play she has also written.

Herald Tribune Article

"Inner Voices: “Sex, Intimacy and Aging” with Hedda Matza-Haughton explores the topic through the eyes and souls of four different characters. All roles are performed by Matza-Haughton, who is an actor, drama director, teaching artist, social worker, consultant, and health educator. She is the president and founder of For the Health of It Consultation Services, co-chair of Arts for Health Sarasota-Manatee, Inc., and creator of the nationally acclaimed “Laugh For the Health of It” and improvisational drama program “Words Not Spoken.” This event will be held March 7, 2:30-4 p.m., at Temple Beth Sholom. Cost is $15."

Full article here...

Guest On Radio Reset

On the radio show RESET on January 2pm on WSLR 96.5PM, hedda shared information about her upcoming performances of her play, Inner Voices: Sex, Intimacy, and Aging on January 11th and March 7th. She was also joined by Lonnetta Gaines, a volunteer at the North Sarasota Library and actor at West Coast Black theatre, who shared her impressions of being in the audience during Hedda’s play.
January 2019

On the show, Hedda uses her uplifting spirit and energy to inform listeners of her one woman show entitled Inner Voices: Sex, Intimacy and Aging, which premiered on February 4th at the Sarasolo Festival. Hedda also discusses her dynamic background in integrating drama into her education and prevention programming entitled “Words Not Spoken,” and her exciting work and political activism in communities throughout the United States.
September 2018

Play the recording below to listen to Hedda Matza- Haughton as the first live guest on WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota Community Radio station’s program, Radio RESET. This program, hosted by Sharon Folta every Wednesday, celebrates female voices in music, verse, activism and community. You can find more on Radio RESET on their website.
January 2018

Along with being a guest on Radio RESET, had an interview about the performance published in the Sarasota Herald Tribune on page 9.Find the article here (PDF)

In preparation for the premiere, Hedda also held a workshop at the Friendship Center in Sarasota, Fl where she performed exerpts from and discussed the topics of her play Inner Voices: Sex, Intimacy & Aging.

View the Workshop Flyer here (PDF)