The opening production of A Play, A Pie and a Pint's 13th season at Oran Mor, Fly Me to the Moon, is a small comic gem about the wages of venial sin. Francis (Katie Tumelty) and Loretta (Abigail McGibbon) are two dim-bulb Irish orderlies working at a hospice. Think Laurel & Hardy in medical drag.
When they discover that the (unseen) patient whose room they've come to clean has dropped dead while sitting on the toilet (the playwright loves bathroom humor), Francis and Loretta let greed get the best of them. They embark on a foolhardy scheme to cash the patient's pension check before reporting his death ("Otherwise the government gets his money, right?" is Francis' rationale.
Their machinations get more and more difficult and perilous as the caper unfolds and the complications pile up. What starts off as a seemingly harmless and victimless crime suddenly begins to look like grand larceny.
Tumelty and McGibbon deliver deft and delicious performances as the two goofballs caught up in an ever-mounting spiral of crime.
The ironically titled Fly Me to the Moon is perfect mid-day light entertainment.
