Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Event times:

20:00

Event location:

Pavilion Theatre

Event price:

€25.00

About this event

Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party by Liam McCarthy 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 - a tale of love, memory, and fantasy.

Readers are advised to check with the venue before relying on the details published here.

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