Play: The Gigli Concert

 

Author: Tom Murphy

 

 

JPW King is holed up in his Dublin office cum living quarters. He is in practise as a 'Dynamatologist', offering his services as a practitioner promising spiritual healing and 'the ultimate' in self realisation'. For King, the recurring question is how he is going to get through each day. There is a knock on the door - he has a client - an Irishman who wants to sing like the Italian tenor, Gigli. While we only get to hear of Helen, the unattainable love of his life, we do get to meet Mona his mistress.

 

 

The Palace Players first took to the festival circuit in 1989 with Bernard Farrell's 'I Do not like thee Dr Fell', winning all three festivals entered in Ballyduff, Charleville and Castleisland. They have contested the festival circuit every year since moving up to the Open section after winning the confined All Ireland in Enniscorthy in 1994 with 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'. Having contested the All Ireland finals in Athlone on a number of occasions, 2015 brought them the ultimate honours, winning the RTE trophy with Tom Murphy's 'Conversations on a Homecoming'. This year they bring another Murphy masterpiece to the festival circuit 'The Gigli Concert'.