- Show Info
- CAST & CREW
- TIMES & TICKETS
- PRESS & REVIEWS
In a remote fishing village on the West Coast of Ireland, three sisters (Breda, Clara and Ada) are haunted by days gone by at The New Electric Ballroom. A time when The New Electric Ballroom thronged with bodies moving, men crooned, champagne flowed; and anything and everything was possible. A time which would stand the sisters still in time as they re-enact one fateful night again and again.
A beautifully lyrical story about longing, broken hearts and the power of storytelling, The New Electric Ballroom won the Fringe First Award and Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
One of the most electric and imaginative voices of contemporary theatre, Enda Walsh creates a universe as vivid and crazy as it is moving and beautiful.
Presented by Siren Theatre Co and Griffin Independent
Director Kate Gaul
Assistant Directors Katharine Cullen & Jacobie Gray
Set Designer Tom Bannerman
Sound Designer and Composer Daryl Wallis
Lighting Designer Verity Hampson
Vocal Coach Natasha McNamara
Performance Studies Observer Jacinta John
Stage Manager Michael Cutrupi
With Odile LeClezio, Genevieve Mooy, Jane Phegan, Justin Smith
PERFORMANCE DATES
Previews 7 & 8 March
Season 10 – 31 March
Club Griffin 20 March
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Monday-Friday 7pm
Saturday 2pm and 7pm
TICKETS
SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE 10 JANUARY 2012
Adult $30
Concession/Preview/Matinee $23
Seniors/Group+8 $26
Under 30 $26
$15 Rush tickets – limited number available Monday evenings at the door
Phone bookings 02 9361 3817
Online bookings
VENUE
SBW Stables Theatre
10 Nimrod Street
Kings Cross NSW 2011
Reviews
‘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
‘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
Press
See Enda Walsh in conversation with Joe Dowling
Read an interview with Enda Walsh on the Theatre Communications Group website
Read a review of Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh in the NY Times
For more information on Siren Theatre Company click here
Production photographs
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Stage Fighting Session
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Costume Workshop
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The New Electric Ballroom
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Videos
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The New Electric Ballroom trailer
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