LINKS:
https://newplayexchange.org/users/38699/kathleen-reichelt
http://www.thousandislandsfilmandstage.com/about.html
https://ttdb.ca/people/kathleen-reichelt
https://www.blogto.com/theatre/2008/10/garage_collective_down_a_laneway
FULL LENGTH PLAYS:
Swimming in Roses
A full length drama about the rise and release of a rebel rock feminist grunge band. Developed in 2021 with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council Theatre Project Grant for Research and Development.
Her Vincent Sky
A full length drama for three women based on the last two years of Vincent Van Gogh's life. Set in France, during the days at the famous Yellow House with Paul Gauguin and the mysterious death by gunshot while in the company of Dr Gachet.
Darling, Genius (or How To Write A Novel In Thirty Days)
A mumblecore inspired love story that follows Simone and JP through their thirties and forties as they figure out how to live with each other while living apart.
A staged reading presented by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020
In The Room
Siblings visit an exhibition and discuss tradition, death and what it means to be normal. When they're not in the room, the art has something to say about them too.
Presented as a staged reading for a small audience at the Thousand Islands Film & Stage Studio, 2018
The Clydes Are Having A Dinner Party
Desperate to be happy, Mrs Clyde plans for a dinner party. As events unfold, keeping secrets gets harder as this six character play spirals into an absurd landscape of conspiracies, affairs and longing for love.
Produced at the Union Theatre, Peterborough, 1995
ONE ACT PLAYS:
LAFF in the Dark
An amusement park is the backdrop for all the rides of a relationship, from rollercoasters to love tunnels, and the sometimes scary Laff in the dark.
Presented as a staged reading by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020
Love Sick Punch
An absurdist two hander examining the obsession of love from the minds and mouths of a doctor and a poet.
Presented as a staged reading by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020
It Happens In Threes
A lyrical monologue that moves forwards and backwards with intense colour, piecing together the parts of the number three. Existential and absurd.
Presented for a small audience at the Thousand Islands Film & Stage Studio, 2019
Nature Verses The Machine
Two women engage in a poetic arm wrestle over organic and artificial intelligence. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's treatise The Second Sex.
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2010
Accidental Episode
A post-modern one-act that explores consciousness, choice and political engagement in an absurd and frightening dystopia. On the surface two actors climb ladders in a bleak landscape of tradition. Under the surface the captain and crew keep watch for threats made by an unknown Enemy.
Performed for the public at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto main stage, 2009
Throw Like a Girl
A one woman show exploring DADA, memory and psyche from a feminist perspective.
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2008
Who Killed the Curator
In a contemporary art gallery, curators fight for funding, artists bloat for attention and one stray art buyer can't take home a photograph in a space where nothing is for sale.
Winner of the 2008 Evan Hughes Award One Act contest
Performed at the Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2009
Scheduled to be performed at Iowa State University's Theatre Festival in May 2020
Staged reading in Almonte, Ontario March 2024
the argument
An absurd dialogue of four voices in a brain. Written in 2002 and later recorded as six minute audio play for a performance installation during Doors Open, Toronto.
Installation at Doors Open at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, 2007
Read at Eclipse Cafe, Toronto, 2022
cadenza
A young woman returns to her hometown in search of what it means to be an artist in a time of economic uncertainty.
Performed at Peterborough New Dance Space, 1998
DEVISED PERFORMANCE:
Sedan Chair Astronomy
A brief voyage through the mind of Marie Antoinette before her beheading.
Performed at Casa del Popola, Montreal, 2015
Spell of the Hippodrome
A four hour outdoor performance using a boxed rental truck as stage to project shadow work, poetry and audio.
Performed at Trinity Bellwood during Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2013
March To Paris
A poet, a fountain and a paper mask offer a prophecy of repeated revolutions.
Performed at the Louvre Gardens, Paris, 2013
Gesture Hot Cold
Three women leave the island of siren isolation to reinvent the mythical story that decenters the male as protagonist.
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2012
Climbing The Pink Tree
Interacting with everyday objects, film projection and concepts of instruction, myth meets commerce on a futon bed platform.
Performed at Gallery 253469, Toronto, 2011
Kick Exposed Alive
Mechanical monkeys, deserts of plastic plants, poetry clowns and experiments in mise en scรจne creations.
Performed at Gallery 253469, Toronto, 2009
Dreaming The Objective
An art studio is attacked by ladders, raccoons and absurdist directions.
Performed at the Arts & Letters Club studio, Toronto, 2007