KAITE O'REILLY   


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Plays by Kaite O'Reilly

KAITE O'REILLY
Almond And The Seahorse, The
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: After the accident Gwennan never came back. Tom thinks they sent someone else. Sarah has reported Joe missing but he's standing right beside her. Four lives are trapped in time but can survivors emerge from the wreckage?
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KAITE O'REILLY
Belonging
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber, London
2000
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: 'Home? Aren't we there already?' This is the first year, since the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, that Maura has wanted her family to march proudly through the streets on St Patrick's Day. With her husband's health failing and her two adult children continually arguing, she dreams of returning to her beloved homeland. But will Ireland be her saviour or her ruin?
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KAITE O'REILLY
Henhouse
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
2004
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Henhouse explores the breakdown of a family against the background of civil war, as those on the sidelines of a conflict feel its effects. At its heart it poses a simple question: how can we live together? The play draws on Kaite's experiences in frontline towns during the war in former Yugoslavia, but this could be Chechnya, Palestine or 'the next big thing'. Our awareness of wars is dominated by news of the soldiers and their loved ones, but it is civilians who bear the brunt of modern warfare. What happens to those just trying to live their lives, how do they hold onto normality?
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KAITE O'REILLY
Peeling
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
Graeae Theatre Company
1st Published:
Faber, London
2002
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Alpha, Beaty and Coral - three actresses in ridiculous dresses - bicker, chat, heckle and share tales of sex, lies and recipes in absurd isolation as an epic production unfolds around, and in spite of them. Gradually their devastating truths are uncovered, leaving them stripped of all pretence in Kaite O'Reilly's darkly comic play on women, war and the things we hide. Peeling explores an entirely new narrative of theatre, weaving in audio description and sign language as a wholly natural part of the characters' personal but resonant stories.
Faber & Faber
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KAITE O'REILLY
Perfect
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: Perfect won the M.E.N. Award for Best Play of 2004 and Best design
Synopsis: Curtis Lawson would rather live in his bedroom, designing fantasy girls online, than get a job or even a girlfriend. His father has other ideas. He wants a proper son and a grandson too, and doesn't hide his frustration with his son's computer obsession. Joi works for Significant Others, an online escort agency. She's hired by Curtis' dad to fake a chance meeting with his son - to get him interested in real life and real women. She looks just like the fantasy girl Curtis has created on-line, and when he meets her he can't believe his luck. But when the couple fall in love, things start to fall apart. What happens when you meet the perfect girl? What do you do when an escort job turns into true love? What does it feel like when no-one knows what's real anymore? What happens when tragedy and revenge seem to be the only options left?
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KAITE O'REILLY
Speaking Stones
1st Produced:
Theater ASOU, Graz, Austria
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
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Piece
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: Writer, Dramaturgy Kaite O'Reilly; Translation Frank Heibert
Synopsis: If stones could speak, what might they say? Perhaps, in their rock-hard silence, they nevertheless 'speak' as silent witnesses of what has gone before, as prophets of that which might be said afterwards regarding the results of war, destruction, and displacement. What fragments of past(s) are disclosed when stones 'speak'? In Speaking Stones, silence and actions 'speak' as much as words. The performance montage juxtaposes words, images, actions, and music. The montage text and performance score have been generated from newly authored text by Kaite O'Reilly; textual fragments edited from sources such as Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero by Brian Rotman; Kazuo Ohno's The Dead Sea; and A Chorus of Stones by Susan Griffith; and images, movement, and a physical score generated during rehearsals and workshops.
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KAITE O'REILLY
Yard
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
The Bush Theatre ISBN 1898736243
1998
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: translated into German as Schlachthaus
Synopsis: YARD is a meditation on conflict, set in the slaughter-yard of a warring family of butchers. It examines how brutal acts, ostensibly to end a civil war, can instead ensure its continuance into the next generation. The first draft of YARD was written in a frontline town where Kaite O'Reilly was working as a volunteer relief aid worker during the war in former Yugoslavia. It was co-winner of the 1998 Peggy Ramsay Award.
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