KATHRYN O'REILLY
Kathryn O'Reilly - Playwright
all writing enquires please contact The Agency
Nicola Biltoo / Maeve Bolger
Tel: 020 7727 1346
https://theagency.co.uk/the-clients/kathryn-oreilly/
"Screwed has a vulgar vigour and an emotional energy that throbs like an inflamed sex organ.
O’Reilly writes convincing dialogue and has added variety and pace to the storytelling by
using monologues and choral passages”
Aleks Sierz - My Theatre Mates
“Kathryn has written such a hard hitting, not only in your face but in your ears blast of a play..
It’s an amazing debut play for it’s authentic and vivid picture it paints of modern day
hedonism and it’s pitfalls”
Lesley Strachan - Wandsworth Radio
“Screwed pulls no punches in its representation of the ladette lifestyle; it contains
coarse language and is not for the fainthearted or easily offended.”
Rhiannon Evans - WestendWilma
A funny and at times brutally frank look at lives going nowhere...
The relationships between the two girls is beautifully observed by playwright Kathryn O’Reilly
and the writing is bouncy and quirky”
Siân Rowland - London Pub Theatre
SCREWED
written by Kathryn O'Reilly
premiered at Theatre503
Produced by Kathryn O'Reilly & Maeve O'Neill
Directed by Sarah Meadows - Offie nominated
Dramaturg Neil Grutchfield
Designer Catherine Morgan
Lighting Designer Jammie Platt
Composer Benedict Taylor
Stage Manager Polly Heinkel
Assistant Director Monty Leigh
Production Photographer Sophie Mutevelian
Cast: Derek Elroy, Eloise Joseph,
Stephen Myott-Meadows, Samantha Robinson
Funded by Arts Council England & The Richard Carne Trust,
Supported by Joanna Bacon, John Stanley.
With thanks to Out of Joint
SYNOPSIS - Ticking time-bombs Luce and Charlene are 30-something binge-drinking soul mates.
They clock in after heavy a night out on the tiles,
popping caffeine pills and downing miniatures on the factory floor,
boasting about last night’s sexual conquests.
When you are living for today it's hard to think about tomorrow.
“A witty look at female friendship in a broken society.
O’Reilly has a great ear for the scrappy rhythm of everyday speech.
An assured debut, at times sharply observed and bruisingly funny ”
Tom Wicker - Time Out
“O’Reilly’s explicit dialogue pulls no punches...
Packed with raw energy and frighteningly believable...
O’Reilly’s play is both funny and disturbing,
showing lives that lie behind the statistics that tell
us of increasing alcohol problems among women.
It is a piece of new writing rich with promise”
Stephen Bates - Thebeastspen.com
“Highly impressive, very authentic writing,
combined with great acting made for an
altogether very unpleasant and yet strangely compelling play”
Terry Eastham - LondonTheatre1
“Kathryn O’Reilly has really done a wonderful job on her debut play,
it is youthful and full of fire.
It’s funny because it is so entirely true...
I couldn’t ask for more from a play,
there are explorations of lifestyles, relationships,
diversity and killer dialogue”
Bethany Dickinson - A Younger Theatre
“O'Reilly has a brilliant ear for the visceral venality
of their chat in all its swaggering hollowness...
O'Reilly's writing produces some gorgeous passages of
overlapping dialogue...
A bolshy, brutal bit of theatre”
Ian Foster - There Ought To Be Clowns
“This is actress and writer Kathryn O'Reilly's first play
and there's much that's promising about it.
Throughout there's an impressive attention to rhythmic dialogue,
the script establishing a
breakneck pace that rarely lets up.
On top of that there's a nicely disciplined use of time and space”
London City Nights
“O’Reilly’s produced a choppy,
off-beat script that allows the friends to fall into a familiar routine
and bounce off each other in a way that’s both funny and oddly touching...
Screwed is a hard-hitting play...
Kathryn O’Reilly’s decision to explore this social trend with a focus on female characters is refreshing”
Liz Dyer - Theblogoftheatrethings.com
“Wonderfully biting dialogue and excellent performances from the cast of four easily seduce the audience”
Theplaysthething.com
“The promising early scenes of Kathryn O’Reilly’s play have a poetic staccato quality.
Her sentences are like one-inch punches – blam, blam, blam – giving you a real sense
of the machine of these women’s lives”
Natasha Tripney - The Stage
“Funny, vulgar and just a bit scary.
Screwed at Theatre 503 really hits you with everything it can in this new work by Kathryn O'Reilly....
It is unnerving and at times horrifying to watch two ladies go on a
self-destructive rampage.
But there is something about the piece that seems so appropriate for our times.
Self-destruction, promiscuity, dead end jobs and alcoholism.
It is all presented here in a subtle and delicate way”
Paul In London
POISONED POLLUTED
written by Kathryn O'Reilly
Premiered at Old Red Lion Theatre - 2019
Produced by Kathryn O'Reilly & Anna Doolan
Associate Producer RUA Arts
Directed by Lucy Allan
Cast Kathryn O'Reilly, Anna Doolan - OFFIE nominated
Movement Director Sophie Shaw
Designer Mayou Trikerioti
Sound Designer Nicola Chang
Lighting Designer Benny Goodman
Stage Manager Hester Blindell
Rehearsal & Production photography Robert Workman
Funded by Anonymous, Karl Sydow, Carne Trust.
Supported by Clean Break, Out of Joint
"Superbly written dark play"
Stage Door
"Hard-hitting but moving two-hander examining
the scars and childhood abuse and trauma"
Claire Roderick - Fairy Powered
"Movement director Sophie Shaw has choreographed a
series of lyrical movements which symbolise
key moments during the sisters' relationship
aloowing O'Reilly and Doolan to showcase their talent"
Lucy Bacon - Islington Tribune
"It's a provocative, bold and compelling piece of theatre"
Myfairtheatregoer
"An earnest and piercig play"
Broadway World
"This is a must-see play addressing the dark truth
behind cycles of drug addiction"
Islinton Tribune
"The poetic writing combines with physical performances
to create a moving story of sadness and lost hope"
Grace Wood - The Stage
"A couragous piece of theatre"
Theatre News
STAGED READINGS
SEVERED
written by Kathryn O'Reilly
Soho Theatre - 2019
directed by Jelena Budimir
dramaturg Neil Grutchfield
Cast: Maggie Steed, Joanna Bacon, Linda Clark, Barbara Pierson
Producers Kathryn O'Reilly & RUA Arts
Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by Clean Break, & Out Of Joint
Photography by Robert Workman
KLINK KLANK ECHOES
written by Kathryn O'Reilly
Tristan Bates Theatre
Rikki Beadle-Balir's Team Angelica Louder Than Words Festival
directed by Hannah Eidinow
Cast: Kathry O'Reilly, Gary Carr, Eloise Joseph, Anthony Welsh
Photography Rikki Beadle-Blair
CAUGHT
short play written by Kathryn O'Reilly
Bush Theatre
Rikki Beadle-Balir's Team Angelica Boom! Festival
directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Cast: Kathry O'Reilly, Jacqui-Lee Pryce
SCARRED
short play written by Kathryn O'Reilly
Hampstead Theatre
directed by Jessica Swale
SCARRED
short play written by Kathryn O'Reilly
Out of Joint
directed by Blanche McIntyre
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jamie Foreman, Celia Imrie, Johnny Harris,
Matthew Needham, Emma Lowndes
POETRY / MUSIC
DESIGN & EP Photography by Charlie O'Reilly
