The Walworth Farce
From: Thursday, 18th September 2008
To: Saturday, 29 November 2008
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Synopsis
What are we if we are not our stories? It’s 11 o’clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of harp, 15 crackers with spreadable cheese, 10 pink biscuit wafers and one oven cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours time, as is normal, five people will have been killed.
Our Review:
25 September 2008
Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom was one of the hits of this year’s Edinburgh Festival fringe. In its tale of three sisters recreating a calamitous incident from their long-lost youth, it sounds like a female counterpart to this earlier play, The Walworth Farce, which arrives on the South Bank via last year’s festival and a season in New York.
The Druid production by Mikel Murfi had its premiere in Galway in 2006 and seems to be still running off the same highly charged batteries. As in Walsh’s break-through play, Disco Pigs, there’s a frightening energy pumping through this writing, here translated into performances of overwhelming force and brutality.
High in a council flat on the Walworth Road near the Elephant and Castle, Dinny (Denis Conway) is presiding over a daily ritual of recreating the family history with his two incarcerated sons, Sean (Tadhg Murphy as an alarmingly bald and devastated victim) and Blake ([Garrett...
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Sycamore Flint - 20 November 2008:
For me, it gets 2 stars for the brilliantly detailed set and the energy of the performers, but one deducted to counter the three 5-star ratings from the same poster below. The play itself quickly becomes tiresome as the authoritarian father bullies his two sons through what seems to be a daily re-enactment of their family history. An interesting idea stretched way beyond its limited worth. I didn't noticeably improve in act 2 either. By the way, I wish the WOS system was able to block multiple entries from smug pillocks like joesmith with his juvenile little snipes....
Creative
Enda Walsh (Author)
Druid (Company)
Mikel Murfi (Director)
Sabine Dargent (Design)
Paul Keogan (Lighting)
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