NHB Modern Plays
4 total works
A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.
Enda Walsh's Lynndie's Gotta Gun is 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...
Read moreA short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.
Enda Walsh's Lynndie's Gotta Gun is 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 Soldier Lynndie England was sentenced to three years in prison for her part in the abuse.
Lynndie's Gotta Gun was first performed by Artistas Unidos, a not-for-profit community organisation, at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Lisbon on 16 June 2005. The piece formed part of the Confêrenca de Imprensa e Outras Aldrabices, a collection of sketches inspired by the writings of Harold Pinter.
A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.
Enda Walsh's How These Desparate Men Talk was first performed (with the title Fraternity) at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in December 2004.
It was premiered in Ireland (as How These Desparate Men Talk)...
Read moreA short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.
Enda Walsh's How These Desparate Men Talk was first performed (with the title Fraternity) at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in December 2004.
It was premiered in Ireland (as How These Desparate Men Talk) by Corcadorca Theatre Company at the Greapel Metal Perforation Factory, Kinsale, Co. Cork, in September 2014.
A ferocious two-hander about a father-daughter relationship gone horribly and terrifyingly wrong.
Father and daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrifying silence in her head.
Enda Walsh's play...
Read moreA ferocious two-hander about a father-daughter relationship gone horribly and terrifyingly wrong.
Father and daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrifying silence in her head.
Enda Walsh's play bedbound was first performed at The New Theatre, Dublin, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2000. It received its UK premiere at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was revived at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in January 2002.
Enda Walsh's debut play, The Ginger Ale Boy is a cabaret-style piece about a ventriloquist who has a nervous breakdown.
The play was written for Corcadorca Theatre Company and first performed by the company at the Granary Theatre, Cork, in March 1995.