Daughters of Ire presented by The Other Theatre Company at The Side Project

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...The 75-minute piece vacillates between bold poetic vision and cursory graduate thesis, and often Rae is so eager to make points she leaves her audience little room for discovery. But she's a mesmerizing dynamo with the kind of feminist passion sorely lacking from local stages."

The Fourth Walsh - Somewhat Recommended

"...I am Irish. I do love all things Irish. So, does my da and my bestie Bill. In the first twenty minutes of the show, I planned to bring them both. They would delight in Rae’s Irish shapeshifting. By the end, I knew I couldn’t bring them, wouldn’t bring them, shouldn’t bring them. They are good and proud Irish men and this would make them ashamed of a past they are not responsible for. As a woman, I know it’s important to understand the horrific act of rape. As an Irish woman, I want to understand my ancestral roots. And what heritage doesn’t have pasts blood-soaked in sadistic acts against gender, religion, class, or ethnic background? I guess I just want to hear my Irish herstory with a song and a jig. And maybe that’s why we Irish drink so much to live in blissful ignorance."