Praise for Tee O'Neill - Playwright
Praise for Tee O'Neill - Playwright
“Tee O’Neill and Theatre @ Risk have taken on this daunting task and carried it off with style. The action never flags. There are moments of deep emotion and humour.
I particularly enjoyed the scene where Picasso, Dali and Lorca sit in a café arguing about art and the Spanish civil war.
Requiem for the 20th Century provides audiences with an intriguing and absorbing overview of the last century and, by introducing the story of the lovers Cassandra and Red, ensure that the big events and larger than life characters, are given a personal dimension.”
-Melbourne Stage Online 24th Nov 2006
“Tee O’Neill is one of the brightest lights of new Australian drama.“
-David Williamson. (Gallipoli, The Club, Phar Lap.)
“Funny, good-humoured, playful production… hurls footy into the theatre for those who are usually barracking from the Southern Stand.“
-The Herald Sun
“From tragedy to legendary… Tee O’Neill’s stage show about this remarkable man will uplift and inspire …with plenty of laughs along the way.“
-Stage Whispers
“Tee O’Neill’s Requiem for the 20th Century is a daring and hugely ambitious theatrical epic. .. inspiring work – unapologetically ambitious, bursting with the humour and tragedy of life writ large – that might just rewire your sense of what theatre can achieve.“
-The Age
“While Stalking Matilda explores the popular theme of asylum seekers seen in an increasing number of recent productions, much credit must be given for its original composition.”
– State of The Art.
“Stalking Matilda is… theatre that’s left of mainstream and politically conscious. The company prides itself on trying new ideas in form and content and deliberately shies away from narrative orthodoxy. Stalking Matilda fulfils all such criteria.“
– The Australian
“Stalking Matilda by Tee O’Neill has… a carnival like set, limbo competition and jaunty soundtrack combine with O’Neill’s snappy dialogue to set the tone for the rest of the performance – proving that a moral tale is a squillion times more effective when it’s told in an abstract way with irony and satire.“
– Inpress
“The Wall Project by Tee O’Neill, Ben Ellis and Tom Wright…The stories themselves are absorbing, and the many links with contemporary political life become more and more obvious. But it is the synergy set up by the actors, slipping in and out of different roles along with their rudimentary costumes, that energises the whole piece, and makes such a risky proposition succeed.”
-The Age