The Gigli Concert

From Ireland’s greatest living playwright. Daring, funny and immensely moving, Tom Murphy’s masterpiece about the soul and its greatest outlet — the human voice raised high in song — is a genuine delight.

The play centres on the relationship between a gruff Irish property developer and his quack therapist, the washed-up, hard-boozing, misfit intellectual and self-styled dynamatologist, JPW King, who is caught between the demands of Mona his mistress, Helen, the unattainable love of his life, and an insatiable taste for vodka.

The developer enlists King to help him sing like the great Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli. King takes up the challenge and what unfolds from there is a pure theatrical joy.