Kaite O’Reilly’s new play THE 9 FRIDAS will have its world premiere in Taiwan this September.

The play was commissioned by Sherman Cymru, Wales, and will have its first performances at the 16th Taipei Arts Festival, presented by Mobius Strip Theatre and Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, and directed by Phillip Zarrilli.

THE 9 FRIDAS explores the life of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, revising conventional approaches to her story and examining Frida as an everywoman whose life and art has exceptional significance in the present day.

Here's the gorgeous trailer for the production:

我用身體的殘缺與傷痛質疑你的權力捍衛我的自由一字眉、濃豔民族裙、三件式西裝、驚世駭俗的自畫像⋯⋯墨西哥畫家芙烈達．卡蘿（Frida Kahlo，1907-1954）。《九面芙烈達》由獲獎連連、備受矚目的英倫劇作家凱特．歐萊莉（Kaite O'Reilly）及劇場導演菲利普．薩睿立（Phillip Zarrilli）領軍，結合莫比斯圓環創作公社當家花旦梁菲倚、氣場強大的劇場老手鄭志忠、新生代實力派王世緯與陳柏廷，及香港話劇團扛霸子馮蔚衡，在華麗綺幻的場景中化身芙烈達，以這位奇女子的一生境遇，重新界定正常與異常，醜陋與美麗。 09.05─09.07 《九面芙烈達》莫比斯圓環創作公社水源劇場｜NTD700 2014第十六屆臺北藝術節 08.01─09.07 官網｜https://www.taipeifestival.org 臉書｜https://www.facebook.com/TaipeiArts 購票｜兩廳院售票系統 http://goo.gl/0SF9VN

Kaite is an award winning playwright and previous recipient of the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry and the Peggy Ramsay Award, and she has also been nominated for, among others, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

For more information on THE 9 FRIDAS, see the Taipei Arts Festival website here.