New Marie Jones play “Fly Me to the Moon” triumphant on a New York stage

Aiming for the moon, seeing stars

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CAHIR O'DOHERTY,

Irish Voice Arts Editor

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Katie Tumelty as Frances and Tara-Lynne O’Neill as Loretta in Fly Me to the Moon.

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“For me as a writer it reflects my community now,” Jones tells the Irish Voice. “These two women are community care workers, which means they are the lowest paid, but they still have amazing heart and dignity.

“The opportunity they encounter forces them to do something that goes against their whole grain and that spirals out of control. Because they are powerless people in their daily lives they actually don’t know what to do.”

The idea of the play came to Jones from someone who she knew who actually did what the women in the play do. The consequences weren’t the same, but her crisis of conscience was.

“What have I just done, she asked herself,” Jones says. “Her conscience scalded her. What she decided was just to get rid of the cash as soon she could. I remember vividly deciding that this was a story to do. We started out with just the title and the idea and it took off from there.”

It’s the strongest new play, and the funniest, I have seen yet in the 1st Irish Theatre Festival. This is one flight you don’t want to miss.

For tickets call 212-279-4200.

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