‘The Walworth Farce is as brilliant an original as you are likely to see in the theater this year’ _{The New York Sun}

The biggest world tour for a new play in recent memory.

Ten stops down, seven to go. The North American leg of this world tour finished in Berkeley on November 22nd, 2009. The troupe have earned a well deserved break after being on the road for the last three months but they’ll be back. The tour continues in February 2010 on the west coast of Australia and by time the production finally closes in Sydney next April there will have been 209 performances in 22 different cities across six countries. 627 cans of beer, 418 packets of pink wafers and 41 pints of Maureen’s ‘special blue sauce’ will have been used!

Read about how it started and where it’s going

One of the most innovative and thrilling playwrights of his generation, Enda Walsh is internationally celebrated for his exhilarating wordplay and the visceral power of his stories. His play The New Electric Ballroom, also presented by Druid, has enjoyed similar global success and is now on tour in the USA.

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, a father and his two sons will have consumed six cans of beer, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers and one oven cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. Enda Walsh’s ‘ferociously entertaining’ play combines hilarious moments with shocking realism and delivers an achingly tender insight into what happens when we become stuck in the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.

Behind the Scenes

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Druid would like to acknowledge and thank Eugene Downes and his team at Culture Ireland for their financial support and commitment to bringing The Walworth Farce on this world tour. Druid would also like to acknowledge the Arts Council for their financial support towards the original staging of this production.

Also currently on tour: The New Electric Ballroom and The Gigli Concert

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On The Play

‘The Walworth Farce is as brilliant an original as you are likely to see in the theater this year’
The New York Sun Apr 08

‘this play should go everywhere and be seen by everyone’
Village Magazine Apr 06

‘Druid’s superbly realised production, under the direction of Mikel Murfi, counterbalances comedy with tragedy in a production you’ll want to see again and again’
Metro Dec 08

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Enda Walsh’s Irish passion play is loud, mad and viciously theatrical. Its ranting virtuosity and exceptionally grounded performances make it remarkable’
Time Out Sep 08

‘The Walworth Farce moves at break-neck speed… underscored by Walsh’s bracing, black-as-coal wit’
Metro Dec 08

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘ferociously entertaining’
The New York Times Apr 08

‘This is a passion play’
Time Out Sep 08

‘an unsettling but exhilarating blend of the hilarious with the horrifying’
The Irish Times Apr 06

‘An intoxicating evening’
The Guardian Sep 08

‘a theatrical experience that claws at the imagination for days afterwards’
Variety Apr 06

‘galloping gothic comedy out of Ireland’
The New York Times Apr 08

On The Cast

‘a formidable cast’
The New York Sun Apr 08

"cleverly constructed and brilliantly acted’
The Financial Times Sep 08

On Enda Walsh

‘Walsh is a writer whose every line swaggers with imagination, humour, toughness or all three.’
The Times Sep 08

‘It is exhilarating to hang on for dear life on a ride through Mr. Walsh’s bold, original imagination’
The New York Sun Apr 08

‘Walsh is fast on his way to filling the space in the theater world momentarily vacated by Martin McDonagh while he focuses on film.’
Variety Apr 08

‘Enda Walsh effectively combines violence and humour’
tribunemagazine.co.uk Sep 08

‘Walsh is certainly an original, highly talented writer"
The Financial Times Sep 08

‘Mr Walsh…a writer who deserves to be better known in this country’
The New York Times – Ben Brantley Apr 08