Enda Walsh je irský dramatik, jehož díla se často ponořují do syrové reality lidské zkušenosti s jedinečným, často znepokojivým humorem. Jeho psaní se vyznačuje působivou jazykovou virtuozitou a schopností zkoumat složité vztahy a existenciální témata. Walshovy hry jsou známé svou naléhavostí a schopností zachytit podstatu současného života, často s provokativním a neotřelým přístupem. Jeho vliv na moderní drama je značný a jeho hry jsou uváděny po celém světě.
John Kane sits on a hospital trolley. Very shortly, a giant lobster, two women called Mary, a very old man and a jazz percussionist arrive. Then everything starts.Devastatingly funny and profoundly moving ,Medicine examines how, for decades, we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.
A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy.
An extraordinary, original and irresistibly joyous celebration of love, friendship and music. Winner of 8 Tony Awards in 2012, including Best New Musical.
In Enda Walsh's MISTERMAN we enter the head of Thomas Magill, an unstable man whose mission is to bring God to his fellow townsfolk.
The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright. Includes a Foreword by the author.
A powerful play from one of Ireland's most innovative writers. Enda Walsh's extraordinary update of a section of The Odyssey sites four belligerent, self- made men in an empty, dilapidated swimming pool and watches them strut, posture and compete to outdo each other with every hilariously overweening speech.
Two old women, trapped in a remote Irish town of gossip and fish, obsessively relive the time when, as 17-year-olds, they were nearly seduced at the New Electric Ballroom by Roller Doyle, the singer in a touring band.
It's 11 o'clock in the morning in a council flat in south London. In two hours' time, as is normal, three Irishmen will have consumed six cans of Harp, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers and one oven- cooked chicken in a strange blue sauce. Also in two hours' time, as is normal, five people will have been killed.
Two chairs, a table, a high window. An old woman, an old man. Prompted by their alarm clocks they tell their story. They tell of a village in which people's tongues are cut out, making them 'the Silent'. They tell of a ten- year-old boy lying in the woods, battered to death, his tongue cut out.
Two early plays from the acclaimed Irish writer Enda Walsh. schovat popis