Midlife crisis is short and sweet
They Float Up
By Jacquelyn Reingold
Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin
Rating:****
Runs until May 25
‘They float up,” Darnell explains, when telling his new acquaintance, Joan, why his mother’s body is interred in a cemetery in St Louis rather than New Orleans. This terse, stark description of her state in death provides a fitting metaphor for Jacquelyn Reingold’s playlet, which, on the surface, seems like a humorous portrayal of an individual’s midlife crisis. ...