“STUFF FROM BACK HOME:” ENDA WALSH’S THE WALWORTH FARCE

Ano: 2010 | Volume: 0 | Número: 58

Autores: Eamonn Jordan

Palavras-chave: enda walsh, the walworth farce, druid theatre, farce, performance, diasporic

Resumo Inglês:

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.