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Updated 6/7/08
Three Prize-winning Plays
LADYHOUSE BLUES
Walter Kerr, NY Times
"...the mother and her four daughters who share chores and
occasional songs, and blunt, hearty quarrels in the kitchen, are
women without men...The women come on like truth itself
because of the sheer energy they pour into the fleeting, empty,
often despairing days and nights...In their vulnerabilities, all are strong..."
Ladyhouse Blues, first staged at The O'Neill National
Playwrights Conference, had Twin World Premieres: The Phoenix Theatre in NYC (Jo Henderson won an OBIE
in this production), and The Dallas Theatre Center.
Chicago's Wisdom Bridge Production won 4 Joe Jefferson Awards.
Spurred by this and other
American Playwrights Theatre productions, for two years Ladyhouse Blues was the most performed
play in America, and is now a "standard" at university and regional theatres.
One Set, 5 Women
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THE MORGAN YARD
First staged at The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference;
Premiered, Cleveland Play House & Chautaqua
Mercury Theatre,
Colchester, Eng.
Olympia Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival**
J.J. Finegan, Dublin Evening Herald
The voice of Siobhan McKenna singing a hymn, was heard at the Olympia a few minutes before she appeared,
rifle on her shoulder, revolver on her right hip, as middle-aged, fresh faced, unassailable Carrie Morgan
from the Ozark Mountains in Missouri ... With a kerchief tied peasant fashion, the actress looked remarkably like an American Mother Courage, and ...
Carrie Morgan behaved like Brecht's heroine, right down to the shattering scene where the bodies of her son and grandson are
ready to be mourned ...
(**As "Carrie Morgan", Siobhan McKenna won Ireland's "Best Actress Award" )
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A PARTY FOR LOVERS
First Prize for Playwriting, National Repertory Theatre.
Note: Professional World Premiere is open for this one
(One Set. 4 Men, 4 Women)
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"The Realist", an earlier version of "A Party For Lovers",
was produced at Trinity U, San Antonio, TX (see review below)
Ron White, The San Antonio Express
"In Kevin O'Morrison's play, "The Realist" there is a question
whether a man who has built a multi-million dollar empire out of an Italian restaurant
can be a Realist when he still believes New York has fresh air,
and with Vito's rambling monologues one could easily believe
that at times he is crazy. But it is not the insanity of senile
psychosis. It is the insanity of one who knows the world is
a place that is out to kill you, and who is determined to live.
It is this ambiguity about Vito that gives the play its fascination.
And at the end, we can rejoice as we accept his last, enthusiastic
words, "Each day I live, he is one son of a bitch!"
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