Play centres on bathroom kiss

A lavatorial smooch in Limerick is the core of a new play coming to Galway later this month.

Actor Pat Ryan in the Lime Tree Theatre and Belltable production of Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party

Actor Pat Ryan in the Lime Tree Theatre and Belltable production of Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party

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.

Written by a Liam McCarthy, the play is a condensed social history, and a portrait of a city.?

See www.THT.ie

 

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