Goodbye Dandelion review – ode to a fabulous friendship with a 50-year age gap
Underbelly, Edinburgh Maddie and Marcus Rice relate with words and songs the lessons passed on from one woman to a younger one An unexpected theme on this year’s Edinburgh fringe is assisted dying.
It is central to Morna Young’s After Party , about a matriarch who chooses to die after her 80th birthday, and Ben Harrison’s adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies , in which a terminally ill man travels to Dignitas.
It is hinted at in Eilidh Loan’s Cathy , about a woman adjusting to bereavement.
And it is here again in this breezy storytelling show by sibling duo Maddie and Marcus Rice.
The semi-fictional tale is about Maddie’s befriending of the 87-year-old Darcy O’Shea, an artist and piano teacher 50 years her senior, who is full of zest and vigour.
As Maddie puts it, she is “unapologetically herself”, a woman living a life of happy self-reliance with limited tolerance for anyone else.
A long-gone partner nicknamed her Dandelion because of her sticky-up hair, and it suits her personality.
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