Jilly Morgan's Birthday Party

Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable presents
Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party
Written by Liam McCarthy
Directed by Joan Sheehy 

TUE 30 SEP, 8PM
Live at The Everyman

Following a hit premiere in Limerick in May 2024, Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party tours nationally this autumn.

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’.

REVIEWS

★★★★★ – The Irish Times 

★★★★★ – Feeling Good 

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!”

CREDITS

Playwright Liam McCarthy
Director Joan Sheehy
Set and LX Designer Paul Keogan
Sound Designer Tom Lane
Costume Designer Gemma Morris
Dramaturg Darren Murphy
Movement Consultant Myles Breen
Performed by Georgina Miller and Patrick Ryan