{"product_id":"9781780016368","title":"Enda Walsh Plays: Two (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four full-length plays – three of which were produced by Galway’s Druid Theatre Company, three of which were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, and two of which transferred to London’s National Theatre – along with two fascinating short plays and a Foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Walworth Farce\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) is a madcap yet tender play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Electric Ballroom\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) is a dark, glitter-dusted fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a savage and riveting take on the classic Greek myth of Odysseus’s wife, \u003ci\u003ePenelope\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) sees four ridiculous men facing their inevitable deaths, and playing for an unwinnable love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBallyturk\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) saw Walsh reuniting with actor Cillian Murphy after \u003ci\u003eDisco Pigs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMisterman\u003c\/i\u003e for a jaw-droppingly physical play in which the lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso included in this volume are two short plays, \u003ci\u003eMy Friend Duplicity\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), which went on to inspire \u003ci\u003eBallyturk\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRoom 303\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘One of the most fiercely individual voices in the theatre today’ \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Enda Walsh makes his own distinctive stage music in the fury of his writing talent and the irresistible surge of his blatant theatricality’ \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47301004394736,"sku":"9781780016368","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780016368_p0.jpg?v=1763710786","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780016368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}