I, Malvolio In Acting Shakespeare   Questions of sanity and
self-preservation make Irish Repertory Theatre's two-hander a
thoughtful drama worth wrapping your head around.  By • New York
City Aedin Moloney and Rachel Pickup in <I>Airswimming</I>.
Aedin Moloney and Rachel Pickup in Airswimming. © Carol Rosegg
Is "insanity" a tangible thing, or the category for people who
fall inconveniently outside the spectrum of what is socially
acceptable? The Fallen Angel Theatre Company thoughtfully
examines this question in their intimate production of Charlotte
Jones' Airswimming, now running at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
Airswimming follows Dora (Aedin Moloney) and Persephone (Rachel
Pickup), two inmates at St. Dymphna's Institution for the
Criminally Insane in England, over a fifty-year period, during
which the pair has a lot of time to kill. They wash their cell,
tell stories, and occasionally go "airswimming," a type of mimed
synchronized swimming performed by flapping their arms around
the air in their cell. (T