Cast
- Dinny Michael Glenn Murphy
- Sean Tadhg Murphy
- Blake Raymond Scannell
- Hayley Mercy Ojelade
By Enda Walsh
“
The New York Sun
The Walworth Farce is as brilliant an original as you are likely to see in the theater this year
”
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.
'The biggest world tour for a new play in recent theatre history.'
When this production closed in Sydney on April 24, 2010 there had 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’ were used in the process!
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 success at home in Ireland, in the USA, the UK and Australia.
Credits
Creative Team
- Writer Enda Walsh
- Director Mikel Murfi
- Set & Costume Designer Sabine Dargent
- Lighting Designer Paul Keogan
- Casting Director Maureen Hughes
Production Team
- Production Manager Eamonn Fox
- Technical Manager Barry O’Brien
- Company Stage Manager Sarah Lynch
- Stage Manager Paula Tierney (Ireland, UK, Canada & America)
- Colm O’Callaghan (Australia & New Zealand)
- Master Carpenter Gus Dewar
- Costume Supervisor Doreen McKenna
- Wigs and Make Up Val Sherlock
- Scenic Artist Sandra Butler
Dates & Tickets
Oxford, UK Oxford Playhouse 9 - 12 September 2009
Salford, UK The Lowry 15 - 19 September 2009
Galway Druid Lane Theatre 23 September - 2 October 2009
Toronto, Canada Harbourfront Centre 6 - 10 October 2009
Columbus, USA Wexner Theatre 16 - 17 October 2009
Minneapolis, USA Walker Art Center 21 - 25 October 2009
Chicago, USA Chicago Shakespeare Theater 28 October - 1 November 2009
Miami, USA Adrienne Arsht Center 4 - 7 November 2009
Los Angeles, USA UCLA Live 11 - 15 November 2009
Berkeley, USA Zellerbach Playhouse 18 - 22 November 2009
Perth, Australia Perth International Arts Festival 23 - 27 February 2010
Adelaide, Australia Adelaide Festival) 3 - 7 March 2010
Wollongong, Australia 10 - 13 March 2010
Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand Arts Festival 17 - 21 March 2010
Newcastle, Australia 25 - 27 March 2010
Canberra, Australia Canberra Theatre Centre 7 - 10 April 2010
Sydney, Australia 14 - 24 April 2010