It's Your Turn to Change Daddy

Bewley's Cafe Theatre ***

SIBLINGS ANTHONY and Róisín Morris share family history in this charming performance about their father’s clinical depression and his eventual death from Alzheimer’s disease.

Growing up on the “finest farm in Wexford”, two children in “a baker’s dozen”, the pair have different memories of their father: Anthony remembers a gentle man, Róisín a sad one.

The recollections, however, are full of joy, thanks to a mischievous presentation, and amusing tales of dinner shifts, battles over bedclothes, and the annual joy of Christmas, their father’s favourite time of year.

It is rare that a show could actually benefit from more material rather than editing, but at a slight 30 minutes, the Morrises cut themselves short.

The only time their father ever felt alive, they tell us, is when he was on the stage.

It's Your Turn to Change Daddyis not indulgent autobiography, then, but fitting theatrical tribute.

Runs until September 22nd