Nick Hern Books, 2016

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Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...At the age of 6, a girl leaves her bedroom and family home and walks. She never stops. Until now A Girl's Bedroom was first performed at the 2015 Galway Arts Festival, and was revived at the 2016...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's play Arlington (subtitled 'A Love Story') is a story of love and oppression set in a dystopian world of entrapment, isolation and surveillance. It was first performed at Leisureland, Salthill, Galway, on 11 July 2016, as part...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Roles: Total (3), Female (0), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh’s Ballyturk is a play of lyrical intensity and physical comedy, in which the lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. It was first performed at the Black Box Theatre, Galway, as part of the Galway International...

Nick Hern Books, 2001

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's play bedbound is a two-hander about a father/daughter relationship gone horribly wrong. It was first performed at The New Theatre, Dublin, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2000. It received its UK premiere at the Traverse...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's Chatroom is a play about manipulation, cyberbullying and adolescent insecurity. It was first performed as part of the 2005 National Theatre Connections season, an annual festival of new plays for youth theatres and schools...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 42, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...A radical re-interpretation of Dostoyevsky’s seminal novel The Brothers Karamazov, Delirium is the result of a collaboration between Enda Walsh and acclaimed theatre company, theatre O. It was first performed on 9 April 2008 on tour prior...

Nick Hern Books, 1997

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's breakthrough play Disco Pigs is a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits. It was first performed by Corcadorca Theatre Company at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, in September 1996, and subsequently...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's How These Desparate Men Talk is a short play, first performed (with the title Fraternity) at the Schauspielhaus Zürich on 18 December 2004. The play is set on an almost bare stage, with two middle-aged men...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...In a small kitchen, standing by her sink, a wife wills her implosion. Kitchen was first performed at the 2015 Galway Arts Festival, and was revived at the 2016 Galway International Arts Festival...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's Lynndie's Gotta Gun is a short play subtitled 'A play for former US soldier Private Lynndie England'. It was written in the light of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal of 2004, following which US Army Reserve...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's Medicine is a dark and frequently absurdist play exploring the way our society treats those we call 'mentally ill'. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre as part of Edinburgh International Festival on 7 August 2021...

Nick Hern Books, 2012

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Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's play Misterman, written for a solo performer, is a study of one man’s descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland. It was first produced by Landmark Productions and Galway Arts Festival, and performed at the Black Box...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's My Friend Duplicity is a one-act duologue with themes that foreshadow his later play Ballyturk. It was first performed as part of the ‘Impossible Things Before Breakfast’ staged readings at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh...

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Based on the 2006 film written and directed by John Carney, Once is a musical with a book by Enda Walsh and music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (who both starred in the original film). The musical was originally developed...

Nick Hern Books, 2010

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Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh’s Penelope is a tragicomic reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, whose story is recounted in Homer’s Odyssey. Penelope was first performed by Druid Theatre Company in Druid Lane Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's Room 303 is a short monologue inspired by the New Testament's Third Epistle of John and first produced by the Bush Theatre, London, as part of the Sixty-Six Books season on 13 October 2011. It was subsequently shown...

Nick Hern Books, 1997

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Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's Sucking Dublin is an uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin. It was first performed by the Outreach Department of the Abbey Theatre at Basin Lane...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (2)

...Enda Walsh's debut play The Ginger Ale Boy is cabaret-style piece about a ventriloquist who has a nervous breakdown. It was written for Corcadorca Theatre Company and first performed by the company at the Granary Theatre, Cork, on 30 March...

Nick Hern Books, 2008

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Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom is a dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life. Written as a companion piece to Walsh's play, The Walworth Farce (2006), it was first performed by Druid Theatre Company...

Nick Hern Books, 2021

NHB Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (2), Female (2), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Enda Walsh's The Same is a two-hander exploring time and memory. It was first produced by Corcadorca Theatre Company at the Old Cork Prison, Cork, on 13 February 2017, and subsequently as part of the Galway International Arts Festival...