In the Picture: Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party preview

By
Eric Fitzgerald
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Conor McCoy, Shane Hickey O’Mara and Emmett McNamara attended the first preview of Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party last week. Liam McCarthy’s play runs at Belltable until Saturday May 11.

 

 

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.
can experience the collision between these characters and the city in this compelling new work.”.
 
 
Creative Team:
Liam McCarthy Writer 
Joan Sheehy Director
Paul Keogan Set and Lighting Design
Gemma Morris Costume Design
Tom Lane Sound Design

 

Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party was a Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable commission as part of Liam McCarthy’s Artist-in Residency at Belltable in 2022.
 
Booking Details:
 
Belltable, Limerick
Thursday 2nd – Saturday 11th May 2024, 8pm
Matinee performance Saturday 11th at 2.30pm
Tickets €28 / €25
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