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

JPW King is an Englishman holed up in his Dublin office. He offers his services as a practitioner of 'Dynamatology', an organisation that promises spiritual healing and the ultimate in self-realisation to the wounded soul. But JPW himself is wounded, what with his dependence on vodka, the demands of his mistress, Mona; the unobtainable love of his life, Helen; and the big one: Christ, how is he going to get through today? There is a knock on his door: he has a client, an Irishman who wants to sing like Beniamino Gigli...

The production team behind the hugely acclaimed UK premiere of Frank McGuinness’ Gates of Gold, starring John Bennett and William Gaunt, return to the Finborough Theatre with Tom Murphy’s modern Irish classic, with a distinguished cast including Niall Buggy (John Bull’s Other Island, An Inspector Calls, The Weir, Royal National Theatre, West End, Broadway, Young Vic, The Butcher Boy Abbey/Gate/Gaiety Dublin); Catherine Cusack (Ballykissangel, Royal National Theatre, Out Of Joint, The Peter Hall Company, English Touring Theatre and Shared Experience), and Paul McGann (Withnail and I, The Monocled Mutineer, Kidnapped, Hornblower, Dr Who, Royal National Theatre, Royal Court, Liverpool Playhouse).

Tom Murphy’s plays include A Whistle in the Dark, Famine, The Sanctuary Lamp, The Blue Macushla, Conversations on a Homecoming and Bailegangaire.

THE PRESS ON THE GIGLI CONCERT

"THIS DRAMA OF TWO LOST SOULS DESPERATE TO FIND FULFILMENT AND HAPPINESS IN LIVES WITHOUT PURPOSE NOW FINDS ITS IDEAL LOCATION IN THE VOYEURISTIC INTIMACY OF THE FINBOROUGH"
Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

"THE ACTING IS STUNNING"
Dominic Maxwell, Time Out

"PAUL McGANN GIVES THE DISHEVELLED ENGLISHMAN A WEARY WIT AND TOUSLED ROMANTICISM"
Dominic Maxwell, Time Out

"NIALL BUGGY GIVES THE IRISHMAN A VULNERABLE BUT COMMANDING VOLATILITY"
Dominic Maxwell, Time Out

"CATHERINE CUSACK DOES WONDERS"
Dominic Maxwell, Time Out

"THE CHARACTERS ARE CONVINCING, MURPHY’S DIALOGUE OFTEN ACUTE"
Dominic Maxwell, Time Out

"GAVIN McALINDEN’S PRODUCTION IS HANDSOMELY REALISED, FLAWLESSLY PLAYED"
Dominic Maxwell, Time Out

"THE PERFORMANCES NEVER FAIL...RIVETING..."
Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

"NIALL BUGGY AND PAUL McGANN PLAY THESE LIFE CASUALTIES WITH A DYNAMISM AND EMOTIONAL SPONTANEITY THAT IS RARE TO OUR STAGE"
Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

" BOASTING A TOPNOTCH CAST"
Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday

"THE DIALOGUE IS FASCINATINGLY FRACTURED AND LYRICAL, FLICKERING WITH HUMOUR."
Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday

"[NIALL] BUGGY IS MESMERISING, WITH HIS MOON OF A FACE AND ICE-BLUE EYES: MERCURIALLY JOVIAL, VULNERABLE AND PSYCHOTIC."
Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday

"[PAUL] MCGANN IS ON SUPERB FORM: SUBTLY MANIC, CALLOUSLY DOMINEERING BUT ALSO CARING AND A ROMANTIC."
Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday

"THIS IS BETTER THAN MANY A WEST END PRODUCTION AND [DIRECTOR, GAVIN] McALINDEN SHOULD GO FAR."
Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday

"THIS INTRIGUING, PUZZLING SPIRITUAL WRESTLING MATCH OF A PLAY."
Ian Johns, The Times

"NIALL BUGGY. . .SHOW STOPPING . . ."
Michael Hubbard, MusicOmH

"SPELLBINDINGLY DRAMATIC"
Michael Hubbard, MusicOmH

"THE THRILLING QUALITY OF THE ACTING: NIALL BUGGY HAS THE ROAR OF A WOUNDED ANIMAL, PAUL McGANN SEEPS THE DESPAIR OF A MAN WHO HAS GIVEN UP ON HIMSELF AND DOESN'T EVEN KNOW IT, AND CATHERINE CUSACK GETS MONA'S TOUGH TENDERNESS JUST RIGHT."
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

"FULL OF MADNESS, FAILURE AND THE REGENERATIVE POWER OF FANTASY"
C J Sheridan, Rogues and Vagabonds

"GAVIN McALINDEN’S PRODUCTION IS EPIC IN LENGTH, TECHNICALLY FLAWLESS AND METICULOUS IN VISUAL AND AURAL DETAIL"
C J Sheridan, Rogues and Vagabonds

"NIALL BUGGY’S SUPERBLY ACTED IRISH MAN… WONDERFULLY LUCID AND EXPANSIVE"
C J Sheridan, Rogues and Vagabonds

"THE GIGLI CONCERT WAS LAST SEEN IN LONDON IN KAREL REISZ’S PRODUCTION AT THE ALMEIDA IN 1992. . . IT IS SHAMEFUL THAT HIS WORK IS SO LITTLE KNOWN IN ENGLAND"
C J Sheridan, Rogues and Vagabonds

"CATHERINE CUSACK IS DEVASTATINGLY MATTER OF FACT AS MONA"
C J Sheridan, Rogues and Vagabonds