John Aspill’s Madonna and I is a bold, glitter-dusted monologue that manages to be both uproariously funny and unexpectedly tender. Framed by the beats and ballads of Madonna herself, this autobiographical solo piece takes the audience on a no-holds-barred ride dodging prejudice, surviving loss, and clinging to pop idols like life rafts. From the Dublin tenements to a randy youth, via circus shenanigans and heroic drag queen rescues, Madonna and I is one man’s fascinating, funny, and intimate carousel of memory: vivid, theatrical, and often devastatingly real. “Frivolous ...