No Magic Pill Av Christian O'Reilly

<p><i>If you’re a wheelchair-user, you’ve got a simple choice: either you suck sweets in a corner and watch television all day or you try to change the world around you. There ain’t gonna be no magic pill in my day.<br></i><br>This is the (mostly) true story of Martin Naughton AKA Michael Collins in a wheelchair. Martin is an agitator. A disruptor. A seeker of justice and planter of (truth) bombs. But will his anarchic quest for equality be derailed by dreams of love and new horizons?<br><br>Based on the real life of Martin Naughton and his campaign for independence for disabled people in Ireland, <i>No Magic Pill</i>, written by Christian O’Reilly, is a joyful, shameless, no-holds-barred story of one man’s fight for justice and love.<br><br>This edition was published to coincide with the production at Black Box, Galway, and the Civic, Tallaght, for Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2022.</p>