Solas Nua, the home of contemporary Irish arts in DC, presents a free play reading of CROCODILE FEVER by Meghan Tyler
Northern Ireland, 1989. A farmhouse window smashes, and rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her pious sister Alannah.
Together for the first time in years, when they're forced to confront their tyrannical father’s hideous legacy, all hell breaks loose.
Fuelled by Taytos, gin, 80s tunes and a chainsaw, Meghan Tyler’s surreal Crocodile Fever is a grotesque black comedy celebrating sisterhood whilst reminding us that the pressure cooker of The Troubles is closer than we imagine.
About the playwright: “Irrepressible, Glasgow-based, Irish theatre minx” Meghan Tyler is an award-winning playwright and actor from Newry, Northern Ireland. Their play CROCODILE FEVER stormed the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Traverse Theatre in 2019, and recently won the prestigious Stewart Parker Award. They have won the Channel 4 Playwrights Bursary, the New Playwrights Award with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and were a member of the New Playwrights Programme at the Lyric Theatre, as well as having a residency with The National. They were also part of the Convergence cohort of 2023.
Their first play NOTHING TO BE DONE received the MARTA Award for Best Script, “representing artistic hope for the future”.
Their recent plays include: FLEG, Bloodbank, The Persians (A Play A Pie A Pint); Rapunzel, The One With The Lockdown (NTS), Hotline (Tron Theatre).