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A NEW play entitled Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party will be at the Belltable in Limerick, from May 2 to 11. Set against the backdrop of 1980’s Limerick City, Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party follows the story of Jack, whose life is forever changed by a brief, passionate kiss at a party. This moment becomes Jack’s lifelong fixation, leading him on a journey of self-discovery across decades. It is written by Limerick playwright Liam McCarthy. “I’m in my early thirties so I’m a little younger than the characters, they’d be of my parents generation,” he says. Of the story, Liam says it starts in the early 80s, when things are going well for the man at the centre of the story. “What happens to Jack is that the old electricity meter runs out of 50ps, and it goes dark. At the downstairs toilet he has a kiss with a woman, and it’s a case of mistaken identity, Jilly Morgan didn’t know who …
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