Enda Walsh

A chilling, blackly comic tale of manipulation, cyberbullying and adolescent insecurity. In a quiet corner of the internet, a group of bored, restless teenagers spends its time deconstructing children's literature and the messages in modern pop... Lire la suite

Alors que le 8 novembre approche avec le coup d'envoi de Lazarus au Théâtre King Cross de Londres, les comédiens et le groupe de la production originale de New York s'apprêtent à sortir leurs versions des titres de David Bowie le 21 octobre prochain... Lire la suite

Mr and Mrs Twit are not very nice. In fact they're extremely nasty. They're nasty to each other, and they're VILE to everyone else. They hold a family of monkeys hostage in a cage and force them to stand on their heads. ALL THE TIME. We told you... Lire la suite

'I'm a dying man who can't die.' Thomas Newton came to Earth seeking water for his drought-ridden planet. Years later he's still stranded here, soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. But the arrival of another lost soul brings one last... Lire la suite

Grabataire. Dans un univers clos (une pièce exiguë encombrée d'un lit aux extrémités desquelles se tiennent les protagonistes), deux monologues se croisent : un père et sa fille handicapée tentent de communiquer à travers le récit de l'ascension du... Lire la suite

When an Irish busker and a young Czech mother meet through a shared love of music, their songwriting sparks a deep connection and a tender, longing romance that neither of them could have expected. Based on the much-loved Oscar-winning film, Once is... Lire la suite

Alors que le 8 novembre approche avec le coup d'envoi de Lazarus au Théâtre King Cross de Londres, les comédiens et le groupe de la production originale de New York s'apprêtent à sortir leurs versions des titres de David Bowie le 21 octobre prochain... Lire la suite

William, 17 ans, solitaire, passe son temps sur internet et ouvre un forum de discussion pour les adolescents de sa ville. Rejoint par Eva, Emily, Mo et Jim, tous vident leurs sacs sur leurs parents, leurs soi-disant amis, leurs émois, leurs... Lire la suite

A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy . The lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What room is this, and what might be beyond the walls? Enda... Lire la suite

The first eight astonishing plays by Enda Walsh, 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre' ( Guardian). Bursting onto the theatre scene in 1996 with Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh has delivered a sustained fusillade of strikingly... Lire la suite

Enda Walsh's debut play, The Ginger Ale Boy is a cabaret-style piece about a ventriloquist who has a nervous breakdown. The play was written for Corcadorca Theatre Company and first performed by the company at the Granary Theatre, Cork, in March... Lire la suite

How long have you been here, John?– I don't know.And what brought you here?– That's difficult to answer. John Kane is sitting on a hospital gurney, and very shortly a jazz percussionist, two women called Mary, a very old man and a giant lobster will... Lire la suite

A dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life, from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce. Three sisters in a remote fishing village, trapped in the years that have passed since their halcyon days at The New... Lire la suite

The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, Enda Walsh. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four... Lire la suite

A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers. Enda Walsh's How These Desparate Men Talk was first performed (with the title Fraternity) at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in December 2004.... Lire la suite

A ferocious two-hander about a father-daughter relationship gone horribly and terrifyingly wrong. Father and daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about... Lire la suite

A remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. Visceral and tender, The Walworth Farce combines hilarious moments with shocking realism. It's 11 o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the... Lire la suite

A virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland. Inishfree might seem like a quaint Irish town, but fierce evangelist Thomas Magill knows better. He knows that jovial Dwain Flynn is a miserable drunk, that Timmy O... Lire la suite

Hilarious, brutal and tragic, Delirium is a radical re-interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries. The play is the result of a collaboration between acclaimed company theatre O and award... Lire la suite

A savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, whose story is recounted in Homer's Odyssey. It's 11.30 a.m. and already it's thirty-three degrees Celsius. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculous... Lire la suite