Tag Archives: Enda Walsh

Rooms

Silk Street Theatre, Barbican, London ****
Runs: 1hr 15 mins without an interval
Review of performance seen April 11, 2019:

© Andrew Downes for GIAF, modern bathroom, spick and span except for the smashed basin, something's not right here...

© Andrew Downes for GIAF, modern bathroom, spick and span except for the smashed basin, something’s not right here…

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Ballyturk

Lyttelton, National Theatre

Enda Walsh is the most aggravating, challenging of playwrights. A weaver of fantasies, his back catalogue (includes Disco Pigs, The Walworth Farce and Misterman as well as the book of the musical, Once) gives hints enough of his distinctive style: of characters locked or indeed imprisoned in their own worlds, the creation of intensely private, hermetic states of being.

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