Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party will be performed at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday, September 27.
It 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. Directed by Joan Sheehy, It is an exciting, time-bending and darkly humorous piece of new writing about the rise and fall of a fantasy.
This compelling two-hander is driven by Pat Ryan (as Jack ) and Georgina Miller (as Kate ), whose performances have been widely praised for their emotional depth and chemistry. Their nuanced portrayals bring warmth, wit, and complexity to a story that moves fluidly through time and memory.
Written by a Liam McCarthy and inspired by Chekhov’s The Kiss, the play reimagines the story with modern theatricality, weaving humour and poignancy into a rich portrait of obsession, change, and the stories we cling to.
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