Midlife crisis is short and sweet

Susannah de Wrixon and Kwame Fortune in They Float Up at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre in Dublin Pic Peter Molloy

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. ...