Interview: "Cripping up is the twenty-first century's answer to blacking up": Conversation with Kaite O'Reilly on theatre, feminism and disability

Abstract

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Kaite O'Reilly was the winner of the Peggy Ramsay award for Yard (Bush Theatre, 1998), a major success both in the UK and abroad, running for over two years at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. Her other theatre work includes Banshees (Royal Court Young Writers Festival), Belonging (Birmingham Rep, 2000), Peeling (Birmingham Rep, 2003), SMAC2K (Disability Arts commission 2003), Perfect (Contact Theatre, Manchester 2004; Manchester Evening News best new play) and Henhouse (Arcola Theatre, 2004). Germany, Austria, Poland, France, Spain and Australia. She has written Lives Out Of Step for Radio 3, and wrote and directed the screenplay Mouth for British Screen/Channel 4. Her short story "Sight" included in the Mustn't Grumble anthology (The Women's Press) won the MIND/Allan award.