Ballyturk

Ballyturk is a play by Enda Walsh.[1]

The play was first performed at the 2014 Galway International Arts Festival.[2] and subsequently at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Cork Opera House and National Theatre in London.

Synopsis

Two unnamed male characters (1, in his late 30s, and 2, in his mid-40s)[3] live in a single-room dwelling and discuss an imaginary town in Ireland called Ballyturk. Later, the rear wall of the dwelling opens to reveal the outside world. A third, older, unnamed male (3) enters from the outside and explains that one must stay and the other leave. The wall closes with 3 outside. After deliberation, 1 leaves to join 3 and 2 stays. The wall reopens and 1 leaves. 2 stays and 1 is replaced in the dwelling by a seven-year-old girl.

Original cast

and others

References

  1. ↑ The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/21/ballyturk-lyttelton-review-enda-walsh-frenzied-incessant-sententious
  2. ↑ Galway International Arts Festival, http://www.giaf.ie/events/ballyturk
  3. ↑ Ballyturk, NHB Modern Plays, ISBN 978-1848424197
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