BALLYTURK by ENDA WALSH
Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival
Category: Reviews
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 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 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…
Read MoreReview – Time Out
**** ‘Enda Walsh’s wilfully cryptic, gorgeously poetic and clownishly physical new play … a fearless physicality that catapults your heart into your mouth … stunning … beautiful … dazzling’ Fans of Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton, the TV show ‘Lost’ and…
Read MoreReview – Fintan O’Toole: Irish Times
The relationship between words and movement in Enda Walsh’s new play, in which two weirdly innocent men are trapped in an endless knockabout farce, is more seamless than in any Irish dramatist since Beckett So Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett and…
Read MoreReview – Metro Herald
Darragh Reddin reviews Ballyturk in the Metro Herald on 15.08.14. Click here to read the full review.
Read MoreReview – The Guardian
**** ‘imagine Under Milk Wood interpreted by Buster Keaton … a richly theatrical experience … impeccably acted.’ There’s plenty of ballyhoo around Ballyturk. Written and directed by Enda Walsh, and with a cast comprising Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and Mikel Murfi,…
Read MoreReview – The Sunday Times
**** ‘the theatrical values in Ballyturk are magnificent’. Eithne Shortall reviews the play for The Sunday Times 20.07.14. Click here to read the full review.
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BALLYTURK by ENDA WALSH 