<b>"Stuff From Back Home": Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce</b><br>

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  • Eamonn Jordan University College Dublin

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2010n58p333

Resumo

Since its first performance in 2006 by Druid Theatre Company, Enda Walsh's award-winning The Walworth Farce has toured Ireland, Britain, America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia to great acclaim, with the brilliance of the directing, design and acting engaging with the intelligence and theatricality of Walsh's script. The play deals with a family, who as part of a daily enforced ritual, re-enact a farce, written and directed by Dinny, the patriarch, a story which accounts for their exile in London, and away from their family home in Cork. Their enactment is an attempt to create a false memory, for their performance is very much at odds with the real events which provoked their exile.

Biografia do Autor

Eamonn Jordan, University College Dublin

Eamonn Jordan is Lecturer in Drama Studies at the Drama Studies Centre, School of English and Drama, University College Dublin. He has written extensively on Irish Theatre. His book The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (1997) is the first full-length study on McGuinness's work. In 2000, he edited Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre and Fallons Educational Publishers issued Death of A Salesman: A Critical Commentary and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me: A Critical Commentary, both of which were written to cater for second level students.  In 2001 he co-edited with Lilian Chambers and Ger Fitzgibbon Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners.  Most recently, he co-edited with Lilian Chambers, The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories  (2006). His book Dissident Dramatrugies: Contemporary Irish Theatre will be published in 2009 by Irish Academic Press.

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2010-01-01

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