BALLYTURK by ENDA WALSH
Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival
Category: Press
Review – Irish Times
★★★★ Shades of Vladimir and Estragon, by way of Morcambe and Wise, brilliantly colour this revived and recast take on Enda Walsh tale of creation and confinement. It’s difficult enough to get out of any small town, as suffocated young…
Read MoreMikel Murfi interviews Enda Walsh for the Abbey Talks
Ballyturk writer and director Enda Walsh talks about the split second spin and disposable energy that fuels creativity with theatre maker and Ballyturk actor Mikel Murfi. Listen in here.
Read MoreEnda Walsh on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show
Playwright Enda Walsh visits Ian Dempsey and talks about his brilliant works and the various interpretations of them, his collaboration with Ian’s hero David Bowie and….his cockapoo Alvin. Listen in here.
Read MoreEnda Walsh: ‘It should bypass the intellect and go straight to the bones’
He considers himself ‘a profoundly Irish writer’ but this month marks Enda Walsh’s Abbey main stage debut. Andrew Lynch talks to the playwright about this career milestone, losing David Bowie and why he’s not interested in simple, linear narratives. Enda…
Read MoreReview – New York Times
Some playwrights’ work is so tantalizingly open-ended as to resist either a single, or simple, assessment or point of view. Beckett of course comes to mind. So now does another Irish dramatist, Enda Walsh, whose “Ballyturk,” at the National Theater…
Read MoreHow We Met: Enda Walsh & Cillian Murphy – The Independent
Cillian Murphy, 38 Following his stage debut in Enda Walsh’s play ‘Disco Pigs’, about the dysfunctional relationship between two Cork teenagers, in 1996, Murphy (right in picture) found fame with the post-apocalyptic zombie film ’28 Days Later’ in 2002. He…
Read MoreEnda Walsh: ‘Pure theatre animal’ explores solitude and the void below
The Irish playwright-director, Enda Walsh, would seem to have the world at his feet. His latest play, Ballyturk, was acclaimed in Galway this summer and opened at the Lyttelton on Tuesday with a star cast comprising Cillian Murphy, Mikel Murfi…
Read MoreReview – Metro
Another fantastic four stars for Ballyturk from Sam Marlow in the Metro: ‘a crazy, wildly colourful collision of angst, poetry and slapstick … it’s a play with a heart of deep darkness but it’s also touching and hysterically funny, performed…
Read MoreReview – Daily Express
**** ‘enthralling blend of bizarre delights … manic, madcap production … a mesmerising performance from the ever-compelling Murphy … a remarkable piece of theatre.’ Two men who don’t know their own names, let alone each other’s, are trapped in a room…
Read MoreReview – Evening Standard
**** ‘a deliciously strange new play from Enda Walsh, which brings together three superb actors … Cillian Murphy, here eye-poppingly athletic and very funny, alongside the enigmatic and wonderfully hangdog Stephen Rea and restless shape-shifter Mikel Murfi …. there are scenes…
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