A gripping portrait of a destructive friendship between two women who push themselves to their limits.
Luce and Charlene are thirty-something binge-drinking soulmates. Clocking in after a heavy night out on the tiles, they pop caffeine pills and down miniatures on the factory floor, boasting about last night's sexual conquests.
When you're living for today, who cares about tomorrow?
Kathryn O'Reilly's play Screwed premiered at Theatre503, London, in 2016, in a co-production with KOR.
Autorentext
Screwed is Kathryn O'Reilly's debut play. As a writer Kathryn was a member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and completed playwriting courses with City Lit. Whilst at LAMDA Kathryn won the original poetry writing competition two years in a row. Staged readings of her work include: Klink Klank, as part of Rikki Beadle-Blair's Louder Than Words Festival at Tristan Bates Theatre; Severed at Stratford East Theatre Royal as part of Rikki Beadle-Blair's Angelic Tales, supported by Richard Carne Trust; Caught at Bush Theatre as part of Rikki Beadle-Blair's Boom! Festival; further development on Klink Klank Echoes at Bolton Octagon Theatre, Poisoned Polluted at Cambridge Junction; Scarred, which had a work-in-development reading at Hampstead Theatre for a scratch night, and further received development from Out of Joint and a reading directed by Blanche McIntyre with a cast including Carey Mulligan, Phil Davis, Celia Imrie, Jamie Forman and Johnny Harris. Scarred was longlisted in the top 100 from 2188 submissions for the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition 2011.
Kathryn is also an actress and trained at National Youth Theatre, BRIT School and LAMDA.