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KAITE O'REILLY |
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Nationality: Welsh Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Micheline Steinberg Associates |
As a playwright, awards include runner-up in Royal Court Young Writers' Festival, co-winner of the Peggy Ramsay Award (1998), theatre-wales best new play (2003) and Manchester Evening News best play of 2004. She has received bursaries and awards to artists from the Arts Council Wales and Arts Council England, amongst others. In London, she has had plays on at the Bush, Royal Court Upstairs, Soho Theatre and Arcola; at Contact, Manchester, Birmingham Rep, Manchester Royal Exchange and the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival. Her work has been produced in Ireland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany (in repertoire at the Maxim Gorki Theatre for two years), Austria, Poland (the Grotowski Centre), Spain, Croatia and Australia. She has had seven plays produced by BBC Radio 3 and 4 and wrote and directed a Screen Gem for Channel 4/Sgrin/British Screen, which has appeared in film festivals worldwide. Her plays are published by faber&faber, Aurora Metro and Oberon books. Her prose has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. She was a contributor to the 1994 Mind/Allen award winning anthology Mustn't Grumble (Women's Press) and was runner-up in the 1996 Stand International Short Story Competition with mouth . The Meat Man was one of the winners of the Image Irish Short Story Writers of the Year Awards. She is currently writing her first novel. As a dramaturg and tutor, Kaite has been involved with writernet and Graeae Theatre Company's Mentoring scheme and led their renowned project disPlay4 at Soho Theatre. She is dramaturg on North West Disability Arts Forum's Off the Page, developing ten new playwrights, and is mentor to several emerging performance writers at Contact, Manchester and Script in Birmingham. She has been writer-in-residence at Essex University and UCE, and a lecturer at Glamorgan University. She currently co-supervises students on the new M.A. in Playwriting and Script Development at Exeter University, where she is the AHRC Creative Fellow (2003-06). Her research through practice is 'Alternative Dramaturgies informed by a Deaf and disability perspective.'
Plays by Kaite O'Reilly
Almond And The Seahorse, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | available as a playscript from: Sherman Cymru, Wales, EUR >>>, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82837 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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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? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Belonging | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26430 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Breaking the Silence | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Red Ladder Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94744 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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'd' Monologues, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wales | 2012 | ||||
Company: | Kaite O'Reilly with The Llanarth Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #112701 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | London 2012 Cultural Olympiad project Unlimited. Unlimited | |||||
Synopsis: | a dramatic collection of monologues for Deaf and disabled performers, inspired by the stories and experiences of disabled and Deaf individuals across the whole of the UK. The Llanarth Group hope to produce a body of work that will address the dearth of pieces written from a disability perspective, and parts written for disabled performers | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dangerous Women of the Mabinogion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sherman Theatre Company | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #47036 | |||
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Genre: | Four short plays | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Gillian Clarke, Angharad Devonald, Kate O'Reilly and Sharon Morgan | |||||
Synopsis: | Four short plays inspired by the women of the Mabinogion | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Echo Chamber, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cardiff: Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QE >>> | 27 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | The Llanarth Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135687 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | The Llanarth Group return to Chapter with a new performance of movement, text and sound exploring elemental human matters. Joining Kaite OReilly (2011 Ted Hughes Award Winner for Persians with NT W) and Phillip Zarrilli (Artistic Director) are co-creators Peader Kirk (Mkultra, London/Athens) and Ian Morgan (Song of the Goat, Poland). Design by Ace McCarron. | |||||
Synopsis: | Ninety-nine percent of the human body is made up of just six elements. . . something immeasurable is unaccounted for. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Henhouse | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London >>>, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41417 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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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In Water I'm Weightless | ||
| 1st Produced: | Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff | July 2012 | ||||
Company: | National Theatre of Wales | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128664 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
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Notes: | An Unlimited commission for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad | |||||
Synopsis: | Award-winning writer Kaite O'Reilly has always lived with a visual impairment. For this poetic, provocative and sometimes grotesquely funny piece of theatre, she has taken inspiration from the experiences, attitudes and imagination of disabled and deaf people from across the UK. Working with choreographer Nigel Charnock, designer Paul Clay, National Theatre Wales' artistic director John McGrath, and a powerful cast of deaf and disabled performers, Kaite's unique texts will explore the endless possibilities of human difference. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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LeanerFasterStronger | ||
| 1st Produced: | 25 May 2012 | |||||
Company: | A Sheffield Theatres and Chol Theatre Co-production in association with iMove | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133461 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | LeanerFasterStronger is part of Extraordinary Moves, an arts and science partnership between Chol Theatre and Sheffield Hallam University. Extraordinary Moves is a strand of the iMove programme, a Cultural Olympiad programme in Yorkshire, and is primarily funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to create a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. | |||||
Synopsis: | In this brave new world of designer babies, bioengineered athletes and genetically-improved human beings - how far would you go to be the best? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Peeling | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | Graeae Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber and Faber, London, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26431 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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. | |||||
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Perfect | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48427 | |||
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Genre: | 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? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Persians | ||
| 1st Produced: | Sennybridge military range, Brecon Beacons, Wales | 11 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | National theatre of Wales | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118047 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Aeschylus | |||||
Synopsis: | Aeschylus' play is an extraordinary exploration of ambition, adventure and failure, and a powerful family tragedy. It recounts the story of the return to his homeland of the defeated Persian king, Xerxes. In this revival, Mike Pearson will stage the action in the rich setting of a military training area in the Brecon hills. On the edge of the Epynt hills near Brecon, the British Army has built a village - no-one lives there. It is a mock-up in which troops train for urban warfare. In an unprecedented move, the Ministry of Defence has permitted National Theatre Wales a unique residency on the site. For the first time, audiences will be transported across the military ranges to the remote village called Cilieni, where they will witness the tragedy of The Persians played out in a haunting contemporary setting. In houses with walls missing, amid burned out tanks and spent shell cases, Europe's oldest drama will unfold. | |||||
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Speaking Stones | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater ASOU, Graz, Austria | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #65740 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Told By The Wind | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Jan 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #109498 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | created by an award-winning team of Wales-based artists: Kaite O'Reilly (Peeling and The Almond and the Seahorse); Jo Shapland (recently at Chapter with (in)scape and Dance Bytes); and director and performer Phillip Zarrilli (The Beckett Project, The Almond and the Seahorse). | |||||
Synopsis: | A new performance of movement and text that 'dances' an inner landscape. Inspired by East Asian and 'post-dramatic' aesthetics, stories are evoked and told by embodied silences. Identity, memory and remembrance haunt transformation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Yard | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Bush Theatre ISBN 1898736243, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26432 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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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