Kathleen Cahill

Mary and Bill, a couple in their fifties, play a kid's basketball game called H-O-R-S-E, on an empty playground on their 24th wedding anniversary.

ONE STONE is a work of imagination inspired by historical and biographical facts. It is a play about an intimate relationship between two scientists – one who became internationally famous, and one who has been removed from history. It is a story about the deep emotional, intellectual and physical connection between Albert Einstein and the physicist Mileva Marić , who was his first wife. It dramatizes the uncredited role she played in Einstein’s breakthrough achievements, and raises questions about how gender affects the success or failure of talent. It is a historical play which leads us to ask if and how it is easier today for women in science, or in any field where they want to excel.

Set just before and during and after the Iranian take-over of the American Embassy in Tehran, 1979, 1981, 2009.

Sallie, a grieving librarian from Utah, Fritz, an ambitious, insecure photographer with hot dogs, his girlfriend Ryver, who wants to make a splash on TikTok, and Ravi a very cool dive master from the islands, meet a moray eel named Murray and a honeycomb cowfish named Dhan (doesn't have a name) on a dive off a pier in Tobago.

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MRS. EINSTEIN is a play about an intimate relationship between two scientists – one who became internationally famous, and one who disappeared from history. It is a story about the sexual, emotional and intellectual connection between Albert Einstein and the physicist Mileva Marić who was his first wife. It dramatizes the uncredited role she played in Einstein’s breakthrough achievements, and raises questions about how gender affects the success or failure of talent. It is a historical play which asks if it is any easier for women in science today.

It is set in the 1840’s, about people who actually existed: a remarkable woman, Margaret Fuller, and her relationships with many of the great literary figures of her time—Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne—men whose works we know well. But the past is an invention, and therefore the characters glide between worlds: they live in and out of history, in and out of the past.

The play is about writers, people who made worlds out of words. The language of the play is rich. It is also full of anachronisms. Margaret Fuller was a woman ahead of her time, and so she sometimes uses the language of our time, and dreams our dreams.

On another level, CHARM is about several famous men, and one forgotten woman. It is a play about who history remembers and who it forgets, and why.

It is a surreal comedy of manners, a play about what men and women want from each other, the difficulties of communication, and how we are inhibited or freed by the manners and conventions of our time.

It’s also about American Transcendentalism, the belief in the freedom of the human spirit to transcend the confines of history and time. I believe great writing can free the soul. The writings of the Transcendentalists continue to inspire me, and I believe we need them more than ever now, as our towers of greed crumble around us.

Five soldiers -- two men and three women -- are traveling on the same convoy in northern Iraq at the height of the war. A hidden rape before the journey even began, tests their warriors' code-- and their humanity-- in ways they could never have imagined.

A comedy about grief. Roberta a woman of thirty who has just lost her job, arrives in Dublin but her suitcase – which contains her father’s ashes -- doesn’t. Her trip turns into a magical mystery tour and the lost suitcase becomes a symbol of her life. Her struggle to recover it becomes a transformative experience which tests her forgiveness, her love, and her trust in the universe.

SILENT DANCER is a play/dance/romance – where the characters express themselves in
dialogue and also in dance/movement.
It is set in New York City in 1921, and tells the story of an 18-year old naive, white, Irish-American maid named Rosie Quinn, who works for the most famous couple in New York, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda had black maids growing up in Montgomery, Alabama. She tells Rosie that the Irish and African Americans are the same -- mysterious and primitive. When Rosie quotes this to Perry, the African-American piano player she's in love with, he becomes angry in ways Rosie does't understand. She does't understand the pain of racism, and she doesn't understand homophobia -- her beloved brother Michael is a World War I veteran and a closeted gay man. Rosie and Michael have danced on street corners for pennies since they were kids. Now they have dreams of becoming the next Fred and Adelle Astaire. Rosie's education, or, as she puts it, "How it was... what I lived, loved, learned and lost" is the story of SILENT DANCER.

Henry and Louise, long married, are travelling in France. Louise steals a painting by Henri Matisse.

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COURSE 86B IN THE CATALOGUE is a comedic riff on evolution and time. It is set in a remote corner of an arid western state, and tells the story of Stevie Stuart, a paleontologist who is teaching a course on the history of life on earth, at an obscure community college in the desert. Her lectures are constantly being interrupted by: her soon-to-be ex husband Bill, a womanizing financier who lost his job in the financial meltdown, and is now living in a remodeled chicken coop, hoping to win her back so they can start a family – “evolution is just romance by another name” he says.; her best student, Dell, who is a genius at anatomical drawing, but seems to be from a previous century; and Dell’s boy friend, Sterling, an ambitious young man who lives in a tree and isn’t fully Homosapien. In this part of the country, everyone lives in the present, but the present isn’t the same for everyone. Stevie Stuart, who is ever-ready when it comes to fieldwork, makes one astonishing discovery after another as she hikes out of town, “off the dirt road.” She finds a 500-million year old fossil called opabinia, which represents a vanished, unique life form, and when she discovers the ancient, petrified bones and teeth of ardipithecus, an early hominid, she starts to believe that life itself began here in this obscure deserted corner of the planet. Maybe it did. But first, Stevie’s existence as a scientist and a woman are put to the ultimate test when she loses first her evidence, and then her life…. perhaps not to be re-discovered for another 6, 000 years.