“Insightful,
funny look at immigration”
“The Lobby” tells the ‘new wave’ Irish immigrant story with great humor
and just the right amount of poignancy.”
Kevin McHugh, The Irish Echo
“The
Lobby is an enjoyable all-round play, which earns plenty of laughs with its
irreverent treatment and farcical plot”
Emer Mullins, The Irish
Voice
“All
eight of the play's characters are richly painted with their unique
eccentricities”
Ian Reed, The Off-Off Broadway Review
Synopsis
The Lobby is a comedy farce. In includes smoking, drinking, bad language, materialism, competitiveness, jealousy, drinking, sexual disfunction, more drinking, even more disfunction and the general mayhem that ensues when instincts collide and run wild.
Story
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Miles O'Riordan, a young Irish yuppie, lives in a roach-infested, fifth-floor walk-up apartment on New York's lower east side. This is the way lots of people have to live in order to survive in New York. Everyone knows this. Everyone, that is, except his mother. And guess who’s coming to visit Miles for a surprise visit from Dublin? The Lobby is the story of Miles and his boy-hood friend, Jimmy—night doorman of a fancy residential building in Manhattan—and one big elaborate and extremely hilarious hoax. |
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Characters
Eight characters, all born and raised in
Ireland, now living in (or visiting) New York.
JIMMY BURGESS—Aged 27. Night doorman at the American Loft Building.
MILES O'RIORDAN—Aged 27. Childhood friend of JIMMY.
ANDREW JOHNSON—Late 20s. A college friend of Miles. A tenant in the American Loft Building.
OLIVIA TERRIT—Late 20s. Andrew's live-in fiancé.
UNA MURPHY—Aged 30. Actress. Another tenant in the American Loft Building.
BARNEY REID—Mid 30s. Interior decorator.
TOMAS (TOCK) O'CALLAGHAN—Early 40s. Interior decorator.
MRS O'RIORDAN—Late 50s. Miles' mother.
The time is the early 1990's.
Set
The entrance lobby of a residential apartment building in New York, consisting
of:
A front desk and chair.
Two "operating" elevators with a button between them.
Two chairs for visitors and a large potted, palm tree.
There are no set changes
The Play
Dialogue Sample
Previous
Productions
New
York
Reviews
The
Irish Echo
The Irish Voice
The Off-Off Broadway Review
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