<DIV><p>&ldquo;In the joint publication...we find Walsh writing with a splendid combination of grace and grit about characters caught in a tape loop.&rdquo;&mdash;Paul Muldoon for the <I>Times Literary Supplement</I></p> <p>Praise for <I>The Walworth Farce</I>:</p> <p>&ldquo;Complex, dark, and emotionally rich. . . . The central conceit, that this is a farce within a tragedy, is a master stroke of meta-theatricality. . . . It rewards with a theatrical experience that claws at the imagination for days afterwards.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Variety</I></p> <p>Praise for <I>The New Electric Ballroom</I>:</p> <p>&ldquo;For the second year in a row [at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe] Enda Walsh supplied the most intoxicating and original piece of writing with his pitch-dark but tender-hearted play. . . . <I>The New Electric Ballroom</I> affirms his growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The New York Times</I></p> <p>This volume brings together two masterworks by the London-based Irish playwright Enda Walsh: unmistakably Irish, galloping gothic comedies about the use of theater and oral traditions to warp family history. In <I>The Walworth Farce</I>, one-play-playwright Dinny forces his adult sons Sean and Blake to enact his own version of why they are living in a rotting London flat, in exile from their native Cork. <I>The New Electric Ballroom</I> is set in a small fishing village in Ireland, where spinster sisters Breda and Clara, and their much-younger sibling Ada, replay a scandalous incident at a dance hall when they were in the bloom of their youth.</p> <p><B>Enda Walsh</B> has been recognized by numerous awards for his plays, which include <I>Disco Pigs</I>, <I>Bedbound</I>, <I>Small Things</I>, and <I>Chatroom</I>. He also wrote the screenplay for <I>Hunger</I>, winner of the Camera d&rsquo;Or award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.</p></DIV>