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  • ‘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:

August 2022,
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
& September 2022,
Duncairn, Belfast

Part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

One of The Stage’s Edinburgh Fringe 2022: Best Shows of the Year

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

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

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