Actors age 90 years in 90 minutes during Westfield Theatre’s ‘Birthday Candles’

WESTFIELD — “Ernestine Ashworth spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it’s her 18th birthday, and even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st.”

Five generations, 103 goldfish, an infinity of dreams, and one cake baked over a century. In just 90 minutes, “Birthday Candles” by Noah Haidle, the Westfield Theatre Group’s latest production, will take the audience through 90 years of birthdays, “celebrating the ups, downs, loves, laughs, losses, highlights, heartbreaks and extraordinary moments that make up one woman’s ordinary life.”