REVIEW: Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Barbican Theatre ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Grief Is The Thing With Feathers starring Cillian Murphy now playing at the Barbican Theatre.
Enda Walsh
Enda Walsh’s Grief Is The Thing With Feathers to open at Barbican
Enda Walsh’s adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers will open at the Barbican ahead of a New York season.
REVIEW: Once, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s Tony Award-winning musical Once which is making its regional debut at the New Wolsey Theatre.
REVIEW: Disco Pigs, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭
Disco Pigs Trafalgar Studios 18 July 2017 4 Stars Book Now The twentieth anniversary of Enda Walsh’s unique, hugely enjoyable and energetic play is given a high octane and loving production by Tara Finney Productions. Bonded as their mothers gave birth side by side, Sinead and Darren have renamed themselves Pig and Runt, and are desperate to escape their dull ‘Pork City’, have invented their own language and rituals and swagger round the stage and their environment. They live for nights out, the disco, the violence, they live for each other, but Runt’s wistfulness and dreams of escape are beginning to show up the cracks in their inter-dependent relationship. It culminates when they achieve entry into the best disco in town, and she catches a glimpse of a life she wants, one which doesn’t involve Pig and his violent jealousy. Here we have two wonderful performances. Colin Campbell is … Read more
Trafalgar Studios revives Disco Pigs with Harry Potter star
Enda Walsh’s explosive play Disco Pigs is to be revived at Trafalgar Studios in London to mark the 20th anniversary of its British debut. It will star Evanna Lynch, best known for playing Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, and Colin Campbell, who was most recently seen in Dublin By Lamplight at Dublin’s Corn Exchange for Abbey Theatre. It will be directed by John Haidar. After premiering in Cork and Dublin in 1996, Walsh’s breakthrough play made a huge impact at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1997, transferring to the Bush Theatre in London. It starred Cillian Murphy alongside Eileen Walsh. Disco Pigs is a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits, Pig and Runt, inseparable since being born at the same time on the same day in the same hospital. They speak in their own language, play by their own rules, … Read more
