GOTHENBURG ENGLISH STUDIO THEATRE

GEST presents the Scandinavian premiere of Fly Me To The Moon. A hilarious new black comedy from the award-winning playwright Marie Jones, who also wrote Stones in His Pockets that GEST had a huge success with in 2009.

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I dream about money Francis, do you? …Maybe people like us aren’t meant to have that kind of money.

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Davy Magee, 84, leads a lonely life whose only regular company are care workers Loretta and Francis. When he unexpectedly dies one day leaving an unclaimed pension the carers find themselves facing a moral dilemma.

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We clean up piss and shit for 6 quid an hour. They owe us that money.

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With few opportunities and unemployed husbands the women make decisions which escalate events beyond their control.

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"A dark farce that makes you feel good...GEST is welcomed and is becoming an important reference point among the city theatre stages " Göteborgs-Posten (Click the link to read the full review in Swedish)

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"Gothenburg's only English-language theater company is becoming a small cultural institution...Fly me to the Moon is a humorous packed social critique and also a feel-good piece...To put it shortly GEST has done it again."  Expressen