{"product_id":"the-walworth-farce-and-the-new-electric-ballroom-9781559363549","title":"The Walworth Farce and the New Electric Ballroom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the joint publication...we find Walsh writing with a splendid combination of grace and grit about characters caught in a tape loop.\"--Paul Muldoon for the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Walworth Farce\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Complex, dark, and emotionally rich. . . . The central conceit, that this is a farce within a tragedy, is a master stroke of meta-theatricality. . . . It rewards with a theatrical experience that claws at the imagination for days afterwards.\"--\u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe New Electric Ballroom\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For the second year in a row  at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe] Enda Walsh supplied the most intoxicating and original piece of writing with his pitch-dark but tender-hearted play. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe New Electric Ballroom\u003c\/i\u003e affirms his growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together two masterworks by the London-based Irish playwright Enda Walsh: unmistakably Irish, galloping gothic comedies about the use of theater and oral traditions to warp family history. In \u003ci\u003eThe Walworth Farce\u003c\/i\u003e, one-play-playwright Dinny forces his adult sons Sean and Blake to enact his own version of why they are living in a rotting London flat, in exile from their native Cork. \u003ci\u003eThe New Electric Ballroom\u003c\/i\u003e is set in a small fishing village in Ireland, where spinster sisters Breda and Clara, and their much-younger sibling Ada, replay a scandalous incident at a dance hall when they were in the bloom of their youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnda Walsh\u003c\/b\u003e has been recognized by numerous awards for his plays, which include \u003ci\u003eDisco Pigs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBedbound\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmall Things\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChatroom\u003c\/i\u003e. He also wrote the screenplay for \u003ci\u003eHunger\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Camera d'Or award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1997 Stewart Parker and the George Devine Awards, he also won the Abbey Theatre Writer in Association Award for 2006 and two Critic's Awards and a Herald Archangel Award (2008). His plays, notably \"Disco Pigs\", \"Bedbound\", \"Small Things\", \"Chatroom\", \"New Electric Ballroom\" and \"The Walworth Farce\", have been translated into more than 20 languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356470219026,"sku":"9781559363549","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42d2f5a2-b153-4273-b563-7b5a786eecd0.jpg?v=1728310339","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-walworth-farce-and-the-new-electric-ballroom-9781559363549","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}