Henhouse

by Kaite O'Reilly

"Henhouse" explores the breakdown of a family against the background of civil war, as those on the sidelines of a conflict feel its effects. The play draws on O'Reilly's experiences in frontline towns during the war in former Yugoslavia, but this could be Chechnya, Palestine, or "the next big thing."

102 pages, ebook

Published March 2, 2015

About the author

Kaite is an award-winning playwright, dramaturg and prose writer. She was awarded the 2010/11 Ted Hughes Award for New Works in Poetry for her new version of Aeschylus's 'Persians', directed site-specifically on Ministry of Defence land in Wales by Mike Pearson in National Theatre Wales's inaugural year. Two recent productions were part of the Cultural Olympiad, celebrating the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics, produced at Sheffield Theatres, Wales Millennium Centre and Southbank Centre, London. She blogs on creativity and process at www.kaiteoreilly.wordpress.com She is completing her first novel.