Three Catholic Civil Marchers fleeing, take refuge in the Lord Mayor's Parlor.  While in this seat of local government they treat the symbols of power with measured disrespect, helping themselves to drink, trying on the mayor's robes and playing with a ceremonial sword.  Are they terrorists, pawns or victims?  Whose version of the truth can we believe?

"one of the best small theatre productions I've seen in Boston in several years!" - The Patriot Ledger 

"an effective presentation of a powerful and important play - bravo Súgán!" - Aisle Say (Internet) 

"Friel cries 'Freedom' eloquently... a fascinating drama, an attack on British violence and Irish hypocrisy... Súgán is to be respected for tackling a provocative Friel script that stares Ireland's present in the face." - The Boston Globe
 

The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy
November
Directed by Carmel O'Reilly
New England premiere
Cast: Robert Bonotto, Wendy Klug, Billy Meleady

JPW is an English, upper-middle-class 'dynamatologist' - a quack psychologist - living in Dublin.  Caught between the demands of his mistress, the unattainable love of his life and an insatiable taste for vodka, the major question is how to get through the day.  Then, one day a client walks into his office - an Irish man who wants to sing like the opera singer Beniamino Gigli.... One of Tom Murphy's finest plays, this rich and transcendent drama finely balances light and dark, comedy and despair. 

"what makes this quirky play entertaining is the wacky dialogue...great fun...if you're an opera fan, it's a boon" - Boston Arts Review

"a meticulous and loving production... O'Reilly and her actors and crew have taken immense trouble to put Murphy's play on stage in Boston, in all its brilliant complexity... a rare treat for the discerning." - Aisle Say (Internet) 
 

The Freedom of the City

This play was presented for a second time in March 1997. 

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