Written by Liam McCarthy | Directed by Joan Sheehy
Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party is a story of love, longing and obsession, centring on Jack, and his experience of a brief, passionate kiss in the downstairs toilet at a party in Limerick City in 1983. The incident becomes Jack’s lifelong fixation. He kissed Jilly Morgan, at her own birthday party, and life, for him, will never be the same again.
Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party takes place across four decades, this is an exciting, time-bending and darkly humorous piece of new writing about the rise and fall of a fantasy. It is a condensed social history and a portrait of a city.
The play, though radically reimagined, is inspired by Anton Chekhov’s short story The Kiss.
★★★★
Irish Times review by
Mary Coll
★★★★
Feeling Good review by
Chris McCormack
Audience reactions:
“I think everyone could relate to these characters, it was brilliant, powerful, moving, and funny”
“Pivoting from laughs to darkness and back again. Extraordinary performances and beautiful writing.
Go see it!”
Duration: 90 mins, no interval
Age: 14+
Creative Team:
Writer: Liam McCarthy
Director: Joan Sheehy
Set and LX Design: Paul Keogan
Sound Design: Tom Lane
Costume Design: Gemma Morris
Dramaturg: Darren Murphy
Movement Consultant: Myles Breen
Town Hall Theatre / 27th Sep