Christian O\'Reilly Boeken

If you're a wheelchair-user, you've got a simple choice: either you suck sweets in a corner and watch television all day or you try to change the world around you. There ain't gonna be no magic pill in my day. This is the (mostly) true story of Martin Naughton AKA Michael Collins in a wheelchair. Martin is an agitator. A disruptor. A seeker of justice and planter of (truth) bombs. But will his anarchic quest for equality be derailed by dreams of love and new horizons? Based on the real life of Martin Naughton and his campaign for independence for disabled people in Ireland, No Magic Pill, written by Christian O'Reilly, is a joyful, shameless, no-holds-barred story of one man's fight for justice and love. This edition was published to coincide with the production at Black Box, Galway, and the Civic, Tallaght, for Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2022.

Containing six award-winning plays by contemporary Irish writers, thisis an exciting collection of the best writing to come out of Ireland inthe last six years. The volume is edited with an introduction by JohnFairleigh, editor of earlier collection, Far From the Land, also published by Methuen Drama. The six plays in the volume are:Gerald Murphy: Take Me Away (2004) GeraldMurphy is a Dublin based writer and actor. His first play, 'TheWelcome', was staged by Druid Theatre Company in 2001. His first radioplay, 'Stranger in the Night' won a PJ O'Connor Award and was broadcastby RT? in 2001.Mark Doherty: Trad (2004) Mark Doherty is a Dublin-based writer who previously worked as a stand-up comic.Eugene O'Brien: Eden (2001) Eugene O'Brien is a Dublin-based writer and actor. 'Eden'won the 2001 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play and wassubsequently staged at the Arts Theatre, on London's West End.Malachy McKenna: Tillsonburg (2000) MalachyMcKenna was trained at Focus Stanislavski Studio. He has workedextensively as an actor, and has written for film and theatre.Christian O'Reilly: The Good Father (2002) ChristianO'Reilly is a Galway-based writer. Two of his short films, 'TheBirthday' and 'The Kiss of Life', have been produced and he has severalfeature-length screenplays in development. He also writes fortelevision.Richard Dormer: Hurricane (2002) Richard Dormer is an actor based in Belfast.