Wall of silence around female body dismantled with hilarity
How to Catch the Menopause & Enjoy It, Viking Theatre, Clontarf until tonight, then national tour including Wexford Arts Centre, May 21; Whale Theatre, Greystones, May 27
Anne Gildea. Photo by Shane McCarthy
Katy Hayes
Anne Gildea surveys her audience, mainly made up of menopause-adjacent women, and says: “There’s great heat coming off ye, you could fry an egg on it, if you had an egg.” Cue big laughs.
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