Tilt

Title: Tilt
Author: Riain, Ailis Ni
Price: $21.99

Description: Three siblings, a girl and two boys, endlessly reiterate the terrible details of their childhood. They are trapped for ever in an obsessive need to remember and relive their treatment at the hands of a sadistic father who brutalised not only the three children but also his ever-uncomplaining wife - who herself eventually succumbed to the drink. Like the plays of \"Beckett\", to which \"Tilt\" pays homage, the atmosphere is oppressive but the author's love of the sound of words is somehow uplifting. Incantatory and hypnotic, this marks the debut of a very promising writing talent. \"Tilt\", a first play by an artist so far mainly active as a composer, is premiered by the Liverpool theatre company, The New Works (formerly LLT), in St George's Hall, Liverpool, before touring to Project Arts in Dublin and the Granary in Cork.

Author Biography: Ailis Ni Riain was born in Cork and graduated in music at the University there, before taking Master's degrees in composition at York, Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. As well as music, she writes poetry and texts for voice theatre and soundscape. Tilt is her first play, though she was selected as one of 20 UK-based emerging writers to attend a residency at the Traverse Theatre in November 2006.

Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Publication date: 27/04/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781854599810
Publishing status: Last copy archived