Pauline O’Driscoll: 'Society underestimates how much women have to put up with their hormones'

The pandemic’s enforced hiatus provided time for O’Driscoll to explore her idea of writing “a play about hormones”

Pauline O'Driscoll: “I could see even then that the male actors who were doing this life, they had wives and kids at home. After the show on a Saturday night, they'd be gone home to their real life until the Tuesday." Picture: jedniezgoda.com.

“What Monica is trying to say is live your fucking life,” says actor and writer Pauline O’Driscoll who has always done absolutely that.

The fictional Monica is the focus of O’Driscoll’s self-penned one-woman ‘hor-mental’ comedic show, Jump!?, and the character’s struggles with the roller-coaster of menopause will be a hard relate for many midlifers.