Sensational Seniors

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff WriterGetting to a stage where one no longer has to imagine their wildest dreams, because they see them played out every day, is said to be living life like it’s golden.Local playwright Coolidge Harris II is manifesting his dreams of writing and is taking them to higher heights, with a show currently being staged in Sacramento and Stockton.“Golden Wings” just played for a weekend run at the Guild Theater through the Images Theatre Company and his own company, Golden Wings Productions. It moves to San Joaquin Delta College’s Tillie Lewis Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 24.“Golden Wings” is about an older woman in failing health who returns to her Southern roots to right some old wrongs while she still can.“It’s a play about people,” says Harris, 67. “The characters are complex. The story is complex. You most likely have to see it more than once.”While the playwright grew up in Merced and San Francisco, he has ties to the South, via his father.“I say, ‘California bred on Mississippi stock,’” he said.& Harris is back in Sacramento after a long stint on the East Coast, mainly in the Washington, DC metro area. Both coasts influenced...