My First Time – the longest running play to open off-Broadway in years – features four actors in funny and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences. The show is written by Karen Davenport, with contributions real people who have told their stories anonymously, via a website which was set up for that purpose.

The Irish version of My First Time, which visits Galway’s Town Hall from March 18-20 as part of a national tour, stars actors Leigh Arnold (The Clinic) Alan Devine (Fair City) Claire Tully (columnist The Sun) and comedian Alan Shortt.

This production, by Michael Scott, features a number of stories taken directly from the Irish website for the show. Used anonymously, they tell of typical ‘Irish’ situations; a bedsit in Cork . . . in a field with an audience of bleating sheep. . . on the way home from school . . . in the back of the chipper!

Whether your first time was ‘like Christmas morning!’ or ‘a wet afternoon in Bray!’ (Story No 19553), the actors will strike a chord. They will explore who the experience was with, whether it was somebody’s ‘first love’ or ‘the wan I met from the bus stop’ (Story No 7779). And it will examine the various locations that people found themselves in during their first sexual experience, from ‘the local park’ (Story No 5049) or ‘on the 46A bus’ (Story No 2995) .

In 1998, a website was created that allowed people to openly and anonymously share their own true stories about their first sexual experience. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 70,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, heterosexual, homosexual, shy, outrageous and everything in between.

And, if you fancy having your experience featured, you can can go online now and tell your story anonymously at www.myfirsttime.ie
My First Time is at the Town Hall Theatre, from Thursday, March 18 to Saturday, March 20. Booking at 091 569777 www.tht.ie