In 2021, between lockdowns, many of the key creatives collaborating for No Ball Games Allowed produced The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven. The visceral production positioned itself within queer religious trauma with a healing quality.

Smyth, in both plays, reaches within, but in the current production, comes forth with a language less lucid.

No Ball Games Allowed scratches at the insides of our bodies, irresistibly, but without reaching the spot of sensitivity, as it leans away from us and, instead, fully into itself.