Woman of Flowers
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Praise for Kaite O’Reilly:
peeling:
“… Kaite O’Reilly’s dense, dangerous play … has all the deceptive simplicity and hopeful despair of a Samuel Beckett play. As in Beckett, the characters are tragic and comic, heartbreaking and ridiculous. As in Beckett the joke is ultimately on us. This is a major piece of theatre…”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“… a powerful and important piece of work … A minor feminist masterpiece … Quietly groundbreaking…”
Joyce McMillian, The Scotsman
“… humorous, sardonic, disbelieving, outraged, foul-mouthed, quarrelsome, defiant … O’Reilly’s dialogue has the punch and spareseness of the late Sarah Kane’s suicide play, 4.48 Psychosis…”
Benedict Nightingale, The Times
“… The spirits of Bertold Brecht and Samuel Beckett hover over Kaite O’Reilly’s peeling … and it’s a teasing, provocative combination, this marriage of Brecht’s alienation-effect sloganising with Beckett’s sumptuous inertia … a droll, self-deconstructing piece of theatre that is far too clever to be pigeonholed.”
Dominic Cavendish, The Daily Telegraph
“… strong, eloquent and funny, the piece has a cumulative power … had me, for one, close to tears…”
Sarah Hemming, Financial Times
“… dry and pungent with a bitter twist … This intriguing reflection on disability and performance [and] the ethics and aesthetics of appearance … an absorbing theatrical form … What’s most fascinating … is the use of the linguistic diversity that people with disabilities often have to master … The fecundity and inventiveness of its many languages counterbalance the stark, sometimes horrific imagery, giving us a depiction of death and sterility that is vivid and abundant…”
Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times
“… a show of great power and ingenuity … ground-breaking and boldly new…”
Birmingham Post
Yard:
“… A scathing eloquence…”
The Independent
“… The talent that Kaite O’Reilly shows … is unusual: bloody, poetic, rhetorical, full of violent emotion, but civilised and savage. It is very much like Jacobean drama – but modern and in microcosm.’
The Financial Times
“… astonishing … Irish lyricism and imaginative writing … strong theatrical meat…”
Daily Mail
“O’Reilly … has an ear for lyrical dialogue, a strong sense of setting and vital humour…”
Daily Telegraph
Persians
‘… chilling, terrifying and a timelessly resonant evocation of the rending grief, fury, and devastation of war … O’Reilly’s [Persians] is drenched in bloody poetry…’
The Times
In Water I’m Weightless
‘… sardonically funny … thrillingly vitriolic…’
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
Kaite O’Reilly’s play Peeling is also published by Aurora Metro Books in the collection titled Graeae Plays 1: new plays redefining disability selected by Jenny Sealey £12.99
ISBN 978-0-953675-76-0
For more great plays go to:
www.aurorametro.com