Fly Me To The Moon: A Canadian Premiere At the GCTC
Photos : Andrew Alexandre
What would you do if you had a chance to pick up some extra, much-needed cash by bending the rules just a little but without really hurting anyone in the process? Money that was owed, say, from a government pension and a bet on a horse race to an elderly, just-deceased man, someone who had been under your care and who, by all appearances, had no heirs?
That’s the situation Frances and Loretta, poorly paid care workers for one Davy McGee, find themselves in when, one Monday morning on their shift, the old fellow dies in his bathroom. Bruised by the recession, the two women in Irish playwright Marie Jones’ hilarious new play dip into that unexpected money pot and suddenly find themselves struggling with more fear and guilt and general madcap confusion than they’d ever imagined possible.