Tea
and Sex and Shakespeare is a surreal, fiercely-paced comedy
of near despair about the peculiar loneliness of the writer whose
imagination has turned upon him. Instead of serving his work,
it starts to produce creatures out of the woodwork and nightmares
out of Shakespeare. A playwright, he suddenly finds himself in a play,
a fantastic farce where the borderline between what is real and
what is imagined dissolves, walls open up, and an old wardrobe becomes
a magical box.
Seamus Kelly, drama critic of
The Irish Times, wrote on its first production in 1976:
'Any dramatist today who can give us the human predicament loaded
as richly in bellylaughs as Kilroy deserves a golden cap and bells.'
