The Gigli Concert
Gigli Concert, The Author: Tom Murphy
First Performance: 1983, Dublin
Published: 1988; rev. 1991, 1994
Genre: Drama in 8 scenes
Setting: J. P. W. King's office and living quarters, Ireland, 1980s
Cast: 2m, 1f
J. P. W. King (‘JPW’) is a 46-year-old slovenly English therapist, promoting himself as a ‘dynamatologist’, who is separated from his wife. He is visited by an Irish Man, a builder and developer, who refuses to give his name and is prone to outbursts of violent temper and to believing that he is the great tenor Beniamino Gigli. JPW feels out of his depth, but the Irish Man insists that he wants to be treated by him. JPW mulls it over with his middle-aged promiscuous girlfriend Mona. The Irish Man comes for a third session bringing a record player and plays an aria sung by Gigli as Mephistopheles....
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