Birds of Passage in the Half Light:
August and September 2022
Company:
Written by Kat Woods
Directed by Patrick J O’Reilly
Performed by Fiona McGeown
Set Design by Tracey Lindsay
Projection Design by Fergus Wachala-Kelly
Costume Design by Enda Kenny
Lighting Design by Mary Tumelty
Sound Design by Isaac Gibson
Stage Management by Sophie Thompson
Produced by Alice Malseed
Company Associate Director - Ciarán Haggerty
Production Management by Rory Casey
Presented at Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh (August 2022) and The Duncairn, Belfast (September 2022)
is a hard-hitting – but not humourless – piece about the Catholic Church’s treatment of Irish single mothers
Fergus Morgan, The Crush Bar
Patrick J O’Reilly innovatively sets everything against projections of Fergus Kelly’s animated illustrations. I found it eye-wateringly enraging when I saw it earlier this month
Fergus Morgan, The Crush Bar
Beckettian lyricism and blacker-than-black laughs. Director Patrick J O’Reilly’s production provides a perfect platform for it – a microphone, a dimly lit stage, and a translucent curtain on which Fergus Kelly’s entertaining animated illustrations are projected throughout
The Scotsman
Birds of Passage in the Half Light is a dark comedic excavation exposing the complicated relationship between Her faith and the generational impact that it has had on Her female lineage