The New Electric Ballroom
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 27, 2009
Closed Nov 22, 2009
Opened Oct 27, 2009
Closed Nov 22, 2009
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Like The Walworth Farce, which will be touring America this fall, The New Electric Ballroom unleashes the power of storytelling and everyday mythologizing within the claustrophobic worlds that Walsh obsessively creates and recreates around shared calamitous moments from the long-gone past. The story unfolds in a small fishing town on the west coast of Ireland, where, night after night, Breda and Clara, two aging sisters, relive the memories of a single night in the early 1960s when a seductive rock singer at the New Electric Ballroom broke both their fragile hearts. Breda, Clara and their much younger sister, Ada, remain trapped in the story, costumed by their tuille skirts, bolero jackets, pink high heels and lipstick until a lonely fisherman appears as Ada?s chance to escape.
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The first words of Enda Walsh's
The New Electric Ballroom, the exhilarating tragicomedy at St. Ann's Warehouse, are spoken lickety-split by a sixtyish woman with anxiety radiating from her like heat waves. Pressing her face to a craggy stone wall as if trying to communicate with someone on the other side, she insists, "By their nature people are talkers." She might just as well have said that by their nature the Irish are playwrights.
Composing in the urgently poetic tradition of Irish spellbinders as far back as William Butler Yeats, who co-founded the Abbey Theatre, Walsh has come up with a four-character work that has the power of something Samuel Becket might have produced had he chos[...]