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A new production of
The Echo Chamber
January 2012
at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
The Llanarth Group
please click to download
poster and/or flyer and see the first trailer below.
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Trailer One - Warming Up from Kaite O'Reilly on Vimeo.
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Chol Theatre & Sheffield Theatres present
LeanerFasterStronger
24 May – 2 June 2012, 7.45 pm
Matinees: 2.15pm, 31 May & 2.15pm, 2 June
at Crucible Studio Theatre
55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 1DA
0114 249 6000
image by Shanaz Gulzar
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How far would you go to be the best?
What if bio-engineered body parts and medical science were on tap to make you leaner, faster and stronger?
Would you fight it; or embrace the brave new world?
A darkly humorous and provocative theatre experience which explores the limits of what human means.
Written by Kaite O'Reilly (winner of the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry 2010), directed by Andrew Loretto, designed by Shanaz Gulzar.
LeanerFasterStronger is a Chol Theatre and Sheffield Theatres coproduction.
For more information click here and here.
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A new production of
In water I'm weightless
directed by John McGrath
July and August 2012
National Theatre of Wales
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In water I'm weightless is part of The 'd'Monologues series by Kaite O'Reilly, to be produced by National Theatre Wales in July and August 2012, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. The production, to be directed by John McGrath, artistic director of NTW, will be an unprecedented event, bringing disability arts and culture to a mainstream, national platform.
For more information visit www.nationaltheatrewales.org.
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Kaite O'Reilly wins the 2010 Ted Hughes Award for her new version of Aeschylus's Persians for National Theatre Wales.
photo by
Hayley Madden |
"Poetry crosses time, the old play becomes the new poetry. Here's the truth of language colliding with the clichés of politics and the advertisement of war. This verse play is entertainment, challenge and a lie detector."
Judges of the Ted Hughes Award
For more information visit Poetry Society.
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Kaite is delighted to have been awarded an Unlimited Commission from the Cultural Olympiad, part of the celebrations for the 2012 London Games
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The 'd' Monologues will be a dramatic collection of monologues written by Kaite for Deaf and disabled performers, inspired by the stories and experiences of disabled and deaf individuals across the whole of the UK.
Working with The Llanarth Group, she hopes to produce a body of work that will address the dearth of pieces written from a disabled perspective, and parts written for disabled performers. The D Monologues will be performed in venues in Wales and across the UK.
Read more about this ...
Arts Council England Press Office
Welsh Icons
London 2012
Arts Council of Wales
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Irish Repertory Theatre
New York City.
A reading of
The Almond and the Seahorse
on 28 January 2011, 3pm. |
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. What happens when you're ambushed by time – your memories deleting, relationships erasing?
The New Works Reading Series at Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, is designed to feature new and developing works by both emerging and established artists and serves as an incubator for dramatic works to be considered for a future full-scale production.
For more information visit Irish Repertory Theatre
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A new production of
Peeling
directed by Kirstie Davis
opens 24 March 2011
Forest Forge |
Always the extra, never the star... Alfa, Beaty and Coral - three performers bicker, heckle and share juicy tales of sex, lies and recipes, whilst around them an epic production unfolds. The anti-heroines are gradually stripped of all pretence, their darkly comic and devastating truths uncovered.
A triumph in its initial productions by Graeae Theatre at London's Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Assembly Rooms, Peeling gives audiences a unique and compelling experience as it cunningly interweaves audio description and sign language.
For more information visit Forest Forge
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Playwriting
Mentoring Project 2011
Ty Newydd
National Writers Centre for Wales
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This unusual course offers emerging playwrights the rare opportunity of developing a new short play with guidance, tuition, and dramaturgical feedback over a six month period by award winning writer Kaite O'Reilly.
Intensive residential weekend workshops 18-20 March and 16-18 September 2011 will bookend the project, with feedback on the emerging script in between.
Availability is limited.
For further information and to apply, contact Ty Newydd.
Told by the Wind – ON TOUR in Chicago, USA, May 2011
Created by Kaite O’Reilly, Jo Shapland, and Phillip Zarrilli
Artistic Consultants: Mari Boyd (Tokyo) and Peader Kirk (London)
“...hypnotic...a haunting painterly beauty...[with] the astringent purity of a haiku poem... intense meditation in movement...the performers have a remarkable presence.”
Elisabeth Mahoney, THE GUARDIAN **** Feb 2010
Two figures, two lives, multiple time spaces: TOLD BY THE WIND is 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, splintered interactions, and slowed down motion.
Transformative and multi-layered, TOLD is informed by Japanese Theatre of Quietude and String Theory [Quantum physics]. Intimate and meditative, it is a requiem for the unseen; a poignant duet for two figures who never physically meet.
Click here for details or download the eflyer.
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in a new version
The Persians
directed by Mike Pearson
August 2010
National Theatre of Wales |
Kaite O'Reilly was delighted to be involved in the inaugural year of the National Theatre of Wales, commissioned to write a new version of Aeschylus's 'The Persians' – the first play in the Western theatrical canon. Working with an outstanding creative team including director Mike Pearson, the site-specific production took place on Military of Defence land in the wilderness of the Brecon Beacons – where soldiers rehearse battle before entering the theatre of war.
Read more at the website of the National Theatre Wales here.
Read about 'The Persians' in the blog of te National Theatre Community:
blog one and blog two.
See the reviews of The Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the The Telegraph here.
By Aeschylus
In a new version by Kaite O'Reilly
Directed by Mike Pearson
Conceptual design by Mike Brookes
Designed by Simon Banham
Music by John Hardy
Publications
One of Kaite’s monologues has been accepted into the upcoming International Centre for Women Playwrights Mother/Daughter Monologue Book(s).
ICWP: The International Centre for Women Playwrights
www.womenplaywrights.org
Kaite was a contributor in the Disability arts and culture edition of Research in Drama Education - The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. Her article, ‘Alternative Dramaturgies, a Playwright’s Perspective’ comments on dramaturgical innovations and developments informed by the playwright’s experience of impairment.
Volume 14, Issue 1 2009. Ed: Colette Conroy
http://www.informaworld.com
09 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalists Announced
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Kaite O'Reilly has been announced as one of the finalists in the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. The prestigious playwriting award, now entering its fourth decade, are given annually to recognize women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. |
The international panel of judges for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize awards includes Pulitzer prize winning playwright Edward Albee, noted British playwright and director Peter Gill, director and award winning playwright Emily Mann, Genista McIntosh, Executive Director of the Royal National Theatre and Sigourney Weaver.
Each year artistic directors and prominent professionals in the theatre throughout the English-speaking world are asked to submit plays. 'The Almond and the Seahorse' was nominated from both sides of the Atlantic - by Victory Gardens, Chicago, who developed the script, and Sherman Cymru, Cardiff, who mounted the first production.
For more information visit
www.blackburnprize.org.
Publications:
Phillip B Zarrilli's
Psychophysical Acting: an intercultural approach after Stanislavski
Foreword by
Eugenio Barba
interactive DVD by
Peter Hulton
Areas of focus include:
- a historical overview of a psychophysical aaproach to acting from Stanislavski to the present
- acting as an 'eneregetics' of performance applied to a wide range of playwrights: Samuel Beckett, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane,
Kaite O'Reilly and Ota Shogo
- a system of training through yoga and Asian martial arts
- practical application of training principles
www.routledge.com/performance
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…”
The British Theatre Guide
“A fascinating work, totally engaging…”
**** 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
Further information and full reviews, click here Almond and the Seahorse Plays (coming soon).
Buy The Almond and the Seahorse at www.gwales.com or www.amazon.co.uk or from Sherman Cymru:
branwen.davies@shermancymru.co.uk
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 was 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.
