Kate Marks
Bird House

Bird House

By Kate Marks

Production History:
-KNF Co. Production: NYC, NY 2009

Synopsis:
The birds and the ants are set to invade your house. Somewhere else, there is a war. Where are you needed the most? Who are you going to take care of? Who is going to take care of you?

Louisy and Syl live happily together in the safety of their tree house, until Syl decides to perform heroic deeds in a far away, war-torn land. Alone for the first time, Louisy falls victim to the whims of the birds and ants at her doorstep. Abroad, Syl finds that the line between good and bad is not as clear as she had expected. Bird House is a fantastical exploration of loyalty, loss, and what it means to do the right thing.


There are some evenings at the theatre that just make being a critic worthwhile...a breath of fresh air...Writer Kate Marks has accomplished what other writers only dream about.
-TheaterOnline.com: Ashley Griffin

A charming fairy tale...Marks' text has a whimsical poetry to it.
-Nytheatre.com: Will Fulton

Lewis Carroll did it with Alice in Wonderland ... L. Frank Baum did it with The Wizard of Oz...now, playwright Kate Marks brings us another place of fantasy where not one but two girls on opposite sides of the same world struggle with the same journey.  This is Bird House...Ms. Marks has created a tiny world with its own rules, flavors, tragedies, triumphs, heartbreak and tenderness.
-Neighborbeeblog.com: Karen Tortora-Lee

Marks' script is enthralling. The way she arranges her words and creates these characters is meticulously stylized. She writes in an almost poetic way, where the words themselves are important, not just what is being said. And the world she's created is something unique in and of itself; although little is ever explicitly defined and the audience must interpret the play in their own way, the stylistic vocabulary is undeniably marvelous.
-Theatreiseasy.com: Molly Marinik

Bird House is full of stunning imagery
-Offoffonline.com: Amy Freeman

Kate Marks has written a dream of a world so consistent in tone that even though axes fly through the wind and cuckoo birds burst out of people's mouths, she sustains our interest. Likewise, Heidi Handelsman has conjured this fantasy so fully that even though we see the puppeteers through the life-size windows of this hand-crafted bird house (Sara C. Walsh's set), we remain raptly dreaming. It's impossible to dismiss Bird House, and yet equally hard to accept.
-Thatsoundscool.blogspot.com: Aaron Riccio

Kate's script is a dreamscape masterpiece, with a bubbly surprise twist to every line leading up to a grim and satisfying darkening end.
-Blindsquirrels.blogspot.com: Johnna Adams