The Gigli Concert

by Tom Murphy

"One of the greatest Irish plays of the century" (Irish Times)



"The language of the play is on a sort of inspired bender. It surfeits on its own potency. Tom Murphy's gift - here and in his other plays - is at once to stimulate and destabilise. It's a thrilling and intense experience to sit in a theatre and hardly to know where you are or that anything exists beyond the stage in front of you...This is a dark, funny, consuming evening of high points, breaking points, hangovers and hints - uncertain hints - of hope" (Observer)

Genres: Plays, Theatre

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1988

About the author

Tom Murphy (born 1935) is an Irish dramatist who has worked closely with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and with Druid Theatre, Galway. Born in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, he currently lives in Dublin.

Reviews

[Merel Claes · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Niall Curran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-read, really enjoyed it this time.

[Adela63 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring, annoying, one of the actors was not good at all, seems one of those plays for elitist intellectuals. Had I been there with my sister we would not have gone back after the interval.