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Molly Shannon
August 20, 2025 12:15 am
Andrea has a skilled and captivating physical presence and movement vocabulary, very engaging to watch.
Denise
August 18, 2025 8:09 pm
Two solo pieces, one soft around the edges, one fiercely in your face. An interesting combination of pathos and gritty determination. Kudos to Meighan and Andrea.
Denise
August 12, 2025 5:15 pm
Orphan Girl had me sobbing. Meighan O’Brien’s character kept a game face on while plunging us into the depths. Her singing voice was soothing. This show spoke to the abandoned child inside.
Andrea Parson’s character slithered and slunk around the stage to her mother’s voice instructing her about love. Andrea presence is so big that the transformation in this show snuck up on me.
Kat Mill
August 9, 2025 7:22 pm
The facial and movement theatre of each of these solos was inter-related and wonderful.
Ken Miller
August 9, 2025 4:07 pm
Don’t miss orphan girl, and The One will take you on an emotional journey you will never forget, from poignant tragic-comedy to our own personal journeys through song, physical theater, and emotional dance.
Don Mill
August 9, 2025 4:04 pm
Riveting and brave
Nancy Keiber
July 21, 2025 12:28 am
Orphan Girl, written and performed by Meighan O’Brien, examines the devastating effects of shame, guilt, and the resulting loneliness in a family which never talks about the past or their feelings. The heart wrenching, original song “Stone Cold Bone” rages against a legacy of pain and, in so doing, builds a pathway to creating a true home for one’s orphaned, abandoned self.
The play is an invitation to freedom by defying and breaking the chains of one’s emotional prison.
The startling opening scene of a grief-crazed mother pushing her dead baby in a pram lets you know you’re in for some heavy pathos. Meighan delivers an adept performance of raw emotion and ultimately her deliverance. A tribute to the hard work of reclaiming one’s life.
Nancy Keiber
Marnie Lucas
July 21, 2025 12:27 am
“Orphan Girl”, by Meighan O’Brien, offers a thoughtful, honest and synthesized reflection of the effects of generational trauma. Through original song, sculpture and uncomfortable truth telling cleverly spackled with playful humor and wisdom, O’Brien traces the long reaching consequences of loss, betrayal and failures of empathy in her family across time and space. Indeed, by offering her own powerful story up for parable, O’Brien humanizes and makes tangible for the audience the heart wrenching effects of emotional abandonment and neglect as it trickles down from one generation to the next.
Marnie Lucas
Andrea has a skilled and captivating physical presence and movement vocabulary, very engaging to watch.
Two solo pieces, one soft around the edges, one fiercely in your face. An interesting combination of pathos and gritty determination. Kudos to Meighan and Andrea.
Orphan Girl had me sobbing. Meighan O’Brien’s character kept a game face on while plunging us into the depths. Her singing voice was soothing. This show spoke to the abandoned child inside.
Andrea Parson’s character slithered and slunk around the stage to her mother’s voice instructing her about love. Andrea presence is so big that the transformation in this show snuck up on me.
The facial and movement theatre of each of these solos was inter-related and wonderful.
Don’t miss orphan girl, and The One will take you on an emotional journey you will never forget, from poignant tragic-comedy to our own personal journeys through song, physical theater, and emotional dance.
Riveting and brave
Orphan Girl, written and performed by Meighan O’Brien, examines the devastating effects of shame, guilt, and the resulting loneliness in a family which never talks about the past or their feelings. The heart wrenching, original song “Stone Cold Bone” rages against a legacy of pain and, in so doing, builds a pathway to creating a true home for one’s orphaned, abandoned self.
The play is an invitation to freedom by defying and breaking the chains of one’s emotional prison.
The startling opening scene of a grief-crazed mother pushing her dead baby in a pram lets you know you’re in for some heavy pathos. Meighan delivers an adept performance of raw emotion and ultimately her deliverance. A tribute to the hard work of reclaiming one’s life.
Nancy Keiber
“Orphan Girl”, by Meighan O’Brien, offers a thoughtful, honest and synthesized reflection of the effects of generational trauma. Through original song, sculpture and uncomfortable truth telling cleverly spackled with playful humor and wisdom, O’Brien traces the long reaching consequences of loss, betrayal and failures of empathy in her family across time and space. Indeed, by offering her own powerful story up for parable, O’Brien humanizes and makes tangible for the audience the heart wrenching effects of emotional abandonment and neglect as it trickles down from one generation to the next.
Marnie Lucas