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.

Images are from the Maxim Gorki production of "Schlachthaus".


First production
October 1998
The Bush Theatre
London

Director Julie-Anne Robinson
Writer Kaite O'Reilly
Cast Peter Dineen, Dawn Bradfield, Kate Binchy, Ged McKenna, Aidan McArdle


Published by
The Bush Theatre (October, 1998)
ISBN 1898736243



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