Marginalia

  • Lonely Hearts Ventura

    Lonely Hearts Ventura

    Kieron Barry was asked to write a short play to commemorate the opening of Working Artists Ventura, the world’s first eco-friendly artists community. Taking the project’s themes of local community and recycled materials, he fashioned a piece of verbatim theatre using posts from the ‘Missed Connections’ page of the Craigslist website for Ventura, California.

    Click on the image to read the play.

  • Bluff Point short film

    Bluff Point short film

    Click here to watch the short film Bluff Point, scripted by Kieron Barry and directed by Scott W. Lee.

  • "Best Part of the Day" song lyrics

    An unused song lyric, inspired by the phrase Kieron’s parents used to say to each other on summer evenings in the 1970s while sitting outside after dinner and rejoicing in the brief stillness.

  • Kieron Barry word cloud

    Kieron Barry word cloud

    A word cloud of all the words used in Kieron Barry’s work. The larger the word, the more often it appears across the plays.

  • Letter to Senator Feinstein of California

    Letter to Senator Feinstein of California

    Kieron's letter sent to Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, protesting President Trump’s plan to end the National Endowment of the Arts.