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The Walworth Farce
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Opened Apr 15, 2008
Closed May 4, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Druid presents The Walworth Farce, written by Enda Walsh, and directed by Mikel Murfi.

Direct from a critically acclaimed run at last summer's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Walworth Farce makes its American Premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse. This new play, disguised as an old-fashioned high farce, complete with rapid costume changes, cross-dressing, and mistaken identity, combines hilarious moments with shocking realism, as it delivers an achingly tender insight into what happens when we become stuck in the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.

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St. Ann's Warehouse
38 Water St
New York, NY 11201


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

We all need our little rituals to get by. Those employed by the agoraphobic, all-male household depicted in Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce -- a Druid Theater Company of Galway production now at St. Ann's Warehouse -- are a bit more elaborate than most. As a result, audiences may be thoroughly confounded for much of the play, but the intriguingly fractured picture eventually comes into focus.

There are two locales involved, though we see only one: a South London council flat, which designer Sabine Dargent has rendered convincingly scuzzy. The other setting, summoned solely in imagination, is a fancy suburban house overlooking the Irish city of Cork, where this dysfunctional trio once enjo[...]


Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on Apr 17, 2008

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