Fly Me to the Moon, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin review: 'the laughs bring in their wake a stubborn undertow of social comment'

Fly Me to the Moon

Katy Hayes

Loretta and Frances are a pair of care-workers looking after Davy McGee in 17 Miller’s Row in Belfast. Their elderly and infirm 84-year-old charge goes to the bathroom and doesn’t return because he has died.

Faced with the opportunity to pocket the old man’s pension, which would mean sixty quid each, the women are tempted. The situation builds as does the comedy; bit by bit their misdemeanour escalates into a major crime.