{"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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Enda Walsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559363549","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706439372937,"sku":"9781559363549","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_411e9b13-4366-4fe7-82a7-0845a329a9a5.jpg?v=1719457057","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-walworth-farce-and-the-new-electric-ballroom-9781559363549","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}