New Electric Ballroom

The New Electric Ballroom

By Enda Walsh (biog and photo - scroll down...)

 

View our production teaser here:  http://vimeo.com/36638547 

 



“Staring back behind the blusher and the eye shadow a girl who’s yet to be kissed. Properly kissed.”



 

This is a coiled, dark, glitter-dusted fable of emotionally stultifying small-town life. The story unfolds in a fishing village on the west coast of Ireland, where, night after night, three sisters re-enact a night in the early ‘60s with a seductive rock singer at the New Electric Ballroom.  Enter Patsy, the fish monger…


 

"With The New Electric Ballroom, Walsh confirms himself as one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre, and one who has a direct conduit to our wanting hearts."
(The Guardian )


 

"soars to fantastic heights, veering between rapid and hilarious ironic evocations of town life, and a dark, bitter erotic lyricism... this is shatteringly fine theatre"
(The Scotsman - click here to read the full review) 

 

“The New Electric Ballroom is The Walworth Farce's shiver-down-the-spine companion piece, a beautiful and devastating play of broken hearts and maimed lives. It evokes Donne and Beckett as it asks: "To what purpose?" The answering call is a howl of despair brought in on the tide with the stink of fish.” (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian).

 

CAST

Ada: Jane Phegan

Clara: Genevieve Mooy

Breda: Odile LeClezio

Patsy: Justin Smith 

 

Director: Kate Gaul

Set Design: Tom Bannerman 

Lighting Desginer: Verity Hampson - http://verityhampson.com/

Composer/Sound Designer: Daryl Wallis

Vocal Coach: Natasha McNamara 

Assistant Directors: Katharine Cullen + Jacobie Gray

Performance Studies Observer: Jacinta John

Stage Manager: Michael Cutrupi  

 

Publicity photography - Kathy Luu; Model - Erica Brennan  

 

Tickets now on sale: http://www.griffintheatre.com.au/griffin-independent-season-2012/the-new-electric-ballroom-2/

 

PERFORMANCE DATES

Previews 7 & 8 March


Season 10 – 31 March

St Patrick’s Day 17 March

Club Griffin 20 March

 

PERFORMANCE TIMES

Monday-Friday 7pm

Saturday 2pm and 7pm

   

FOR MORE INFO ON OUR CREATIVE TEAM PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK TO YOU RIGHT ------ 

Enda Walsh (B. 1967) Ireland.  

 

The Irish playwright talks about his play The New Electric Ballroom, for which he picked up another Fringe First award, and how much the Edinburgh fringe means to him.
http://video.stv.tv/bc/entertainment-edfestblog-20080808-enda-walsh/

 

Want to know more about Irish Theatre, how Enda Walsh works and what's the inspiration of his work? Well, watch this -

In Conversation – Joe Dowling and Enda Walsh:

http://channel.walkerart.org/play/conversation-joe-dowling-enda-walsh/

http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/mar10/walsh.cfm

http://theater.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/theater/reviews/28walsh.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

An Enda Walsh Festival:http://www.studiotheatre.org/festival.aspx 

 

Enda Walsh - Biog

 

Enda Walsh is a playwright and screenwriter who shot to fame when he won both the George Devine Award and the Stewart Parker Award in 1997 with his play Disco Pigs. In 2007 and 2008 Enda won Fringe First Awards at two consecutive Edinburgh Festivals for his plays The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom. The former led the Guardian to name him "one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre."

Since his initial success as a playwright, Enda has gone on to write for the screen. His 2008 biopic, Hunger, told the story of the final days of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands and won a host of awards, including the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Heartbeat Award at the Dinard International Film Festival. It was nominated for seven BIFAs (including Best Screenplay), six British Film and Television Awards (including Best Screenplay and Best Independent Film) and BAFTA's Outstanding British Film Award 2009.