News at http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk:
Kaite O'Reilly scoops major Arts Council creative wales award.
Read this article here.
News at http://www.celfcymru.org.uk:
2008 Creative Wales Award Winner's new play gets rave reviews.
Read this article here.
(from http://www.celfcymru.org.uk)
The Almond and the Seahorse
by Kaite O'Reilly (directed by Phillip Zarrilli)
"Unmissable drama...Tremendous... extraordinary scenarios are tenderly drawn and powerfully realised in Phillip Zarrilli's beautifully judged production." ***** The Guardian
“A powerful drama, beautifully written…Phillip Zarrilli's insightful direction ensures that the performances have absolute authenticity.”
The British Theatre Guide
“A fascinating work, totally engaging… The cast is faultless, giving impeccable performances, sympathetically given and true.”
**** Western Mail
“…Wonderful…a masterly and captivating performance…writing with such sensitive beauty and delicate understanding….what real theatre is all about.”
Michael Kelligan Theatre Wales website
Read the reviews in full here.
For Gwennan, it’s always 1985. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and there’s a strange man at the door claiming to be her husband. Joe’s past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. What happens when you’re ambushed by time – your memories deleting, relationships erasing?
The play focuses on those who have survived Traumatic Brain Injury, informed by a Disability perspective.
The Almond and The Seahorse premiered at Sherman, Cardiff, 29th February 2008, launching the English language productions of Sherman Cymru, then toured nationally.
For further information, please contact Box Office on 02920 646 900
or visit www.shermancymru.co.uk.
Copies of the play are available from the Theatre branwen.davies@shermancymru.co.uk and Amazon.
Find an e-trailer at youtube here.
The Almond and the Seahorse has been selected for the Madison New Play Festival in the USA.
The script will be workshopped over four days and given a public rehearsed reading at the close of the festival.
The Festival runs 14th – 28th October 2007.
For further details see: www.madisonrep.org
Bora Bistrah: an international intercultural project by BBC Radio 3 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Partition and the creation and independence of India and Pakistan.
Kaite was one of five writers from all over the world commissioned to write about the Pakistani diaspora from specific localities: Bradford, Beijing, Nairobi, Karachi and Detroit. Kaite’s contribution, American Born Confused Desi was based on research and interviews with Pakistani immigrants in Detroit and Chicago undertaken when she was in the American Midwest earlier this year.
The play will be transmitted at 8pm on BBC Radio 3 Sunday 19th August 2007.
Directed by Shabina Aslam
Kaite has been awarded a 2007 writing bursary from Y Academi, the Wales-based literature agency, in order to complete her first novel.
PUBLICATIONS:
Face on
Disability Arts in Ireland and Beyond
edited by Kaite O'Reilly
An international publication exploring Disability and Deaf arts and culture in an Irish context.
“Face On is a milestone for the disability arts movement in Ireland, a crucial point of reference in a shifting landscape”
Fintan O’Toole, critic, journalist and cultural commentator
“…a wonderful book…”
Geof Armstrong, Director National Disability Arts Forum, UK
"On a landmark disability arts publication"
Chris Tally Evans, New Welsh Review. See the full article here.
You can as well have a look at the New Welsh Review ("On a landmark disability arts publication") by Chris Tally Evans here.
Featuring 24 contributions from key thinkers and artists from the disciplines of visual art, dance, theatre, literature, film and comedy, Face On presents cultural and political commentary, poetry, academic essays, life writing, extracts from existing scripts and a wealth of visual art.
To order copies of Face On, Price €15/£10
Contact: Katrina Goldstone at Create
telephone +353-1-4736600
e-mail: communications@create-ireland.ie
For further information on Arts & Disability Ireland and Create
www.adiarts.ie and www.create-ireland.ie
telephone +353-1-4736600
e-mail: adi@artsincontext.com
A Memorial of Scattered Bodies: Alternative Dramaturgies informed by a d/Deaf and Disability Perspective
is an essay by Kaite in the eleventh volume of The Open Page issue 11, journal of the Magdalena Project - Women Theatre Practice
"Cripping up is the twenty-first century's answer to blacking up":
Conversation with Kaite O'Reilly on theatre, feminism and disability',
Gender Forum, vol. 12. (2005) http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de
An analysis of 'Peeling' in Jozefina Komporaly's recent publication
"Staging Motherhood: British Women Playwrights, 1956 to the Present" -
Palgrave, ISBN 1-4039-9909-0.
