false 6494664 1 <p>Praise for <i>The Walworth Farce</i>:</p><p>"Complex, dark, and emotionally rich. . . . The central conceit, that this is a farce within a tragedy, is a master stroke of meta-theatricality. . . . It rewards with a theatrical experience that claws at the imagination for days afterwards."-<i>Variety</i></p><p>Praise for <i>The New Electric Ballroom</i>:</p><p>"For the second year in a row [at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe] Enda Walsh supplied the most intoxicating and original piece of writing with his pitch-dark but tender-hearted play. . . . <i>The New Electric Ballroom</i> affirms his growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights."-<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>This volume brings together two masterworks by the London-based Irish playwright Enda Walsh: unmistakably Irish, galloping gothic comedies about the use of theater and oral traditions to warp family history. In <i>The Walworth Farce</i>, one-play-playwright Dinny forces his adult sons Sean and Blake to enact his own version of why they are living in a rotting London flat, in exile from their native Cork. <i>The New Electric Ballroom</i> is set in a small fishing village in Ireland, where spinster sisters Breda and Clara, and their much-younger sibling Ada, replay a scandalous incident at a dance hall when they were in the bloom of their youth.</p><p><b>Enda Walsh</b> has been recognized by numerous awards for his plays, which include <i>Disco Pigs</i>, <i>Bedbound</i>, <i>Small Things</i>, and <i>Chatroom</i>. He also wrote the screenplay for <i>Hunger</i>, winner of the Camera d'Or award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.</p> 6686109 1 11 2009 The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom 0 0 0 0 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6494664