DIRTY DUSTING
A new play by ED WAUGH & TREVOR WOOD

Featuring
IMELDA WELLINGTON, CECILIA WALSH, SANDRA ROBERTS, & SEAMUS BYRNES

Directed by IMELDA WELLINGTON
Assistant Director: FRANK EBERLING
Producers: DENIS HOLMES & KATHY KELLY
Stage Manager: MICHELE AXTON
Public Relations/Program: SANDRA ROBERTS
Lights & Sound: FRANK EBERLING & PAUL JEFFEREYS
Hospitality: CARMEL HARTNETT

Irish Theatre of Florida
2600 Quantum Road
Boynton Beach, Florida 33426
(561) 460-6270 or info@itofl.com
February 24 & 25/March 24 & 25, 2017

Please note: Anything in this review that could be taken as a double-entendre IS a double-entendre. Just to put you in the right mood for the Dirty Dusters. They are mistresses of innuendo.

Three Dublin cleaning ladies are forced to do more than clean. With their jobs threatened by a snotty young boss, they find another, very unexpected, career path. Their vacuum doesn’t suck, their husbands are blah, but while making small talk, dusting and mopping, they realize, reluctantly, that there is another way to earn some cash. Hey, a gal has to make a living.

One of the three has been around the block a few times. Actually several times. A happy sinner. She enlightens her friends about multiple proclivities and practices they have never heard of. Never DREAMED of. When they are done gasping, blushing, and making the sign of the cross, tinges of guilt turn into buckets of laughs. Phone sex. Credit card numbers. Fake names. They have gotten way too good at this way too fast. And they are loving every minute.

So is the audience. The laughs are riotous. Ah, the nonsense they get up to. Rub-a-dub-dub, sweetie! Their world opens up, their spirits brighten, and their bank account increases. But they are using their boss’s work phone for their project. Set to lose their cleaning jobs next week, they will be out of business on both fronts. Or will they?

Sister Mary Margaret would be very angry indeed.

-Karen D’Onofrio-