Adelaide Festival 2010 - The Walworth Farce

Presented by Adelaide Festival

It's 11 o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers and one oven cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours time, as is normal, five people will have been killed.

As dark as a glass of Guinness and every bit as likely to compel discussion, this enthralling play-within-a-play from Druid rides the cutting-edge of Ireland's new wave. After its premiere in Galway in 2006, The Walworth Farce played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007 where it became both a critical and box-office hit, taking out the prestigious Fringe First Award in the process.

Every family has stories. But what happens when the lore is a lie? Can you change the script of history and re-run it for the ending you desire? This mesmerising production plays as high-energy, madcap slapstick interlaced with gut-wrenching realism and achingly tender insights. As the Irish father, Dinny, foresees it, it's "a day of twists and turns and ducks and dives and terrible shocks".

Bring your intelligence, suspend your disbelief, and The Walworth Farce will repay you with a theatrical experience that will gnaw at your imagination for days afterward.

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