THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM Opens At Riverside Studios 3/3

Multi award-winning writer Enda Walsh and the acclaimed Druid ensemble present the London opening of The New Electric Ballroom at Riverside Studios for a limited run following the show's enormous success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Transferring direct from its Australian premiere at the Perth International Arts Festival, this London debut is part of an extensive world tour.

Funny, tender-hearted and at times pitch dark, The New Electric Ballroom is a coiled, dark, glitter-dusted fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life. Three sisters living in a remote fishing village are trapped in the years that have passed since their halcyon days at the New Electric Ballroom and are still obsessed by darker memories of something resembling romance. In The New Electric Ballroom, possibilities are endless, hopes are high and opening your heart might be the one thing that saves you.

Enda Walsh is internationally celebrated for his exhilarating wordplay and the sheer visceral power his stories release in performance. This latest work is one of the most explosive and compelling yet from one of the leading playwrights of our time. The Herald Archangel Award was bestowed on Enda at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his contribution to the arts in Edinburgh.

Druid's production of Enda's remarkable play The Walworth Farce is the earlier companion piece to The New Electric Ballroom and has just completed a sell out, critically acclaimed run at The National Theatre. His other theatre credits include Disco Pigs, Bedbound, and Chatroom. Enda co-wrote the award-winning film Hunger with director Steve McQueen which won a prestigious Camera d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Enda has also recently received a nomination for Best Play in the Irish Times Theatre Awards.

The cast is Rosaleen Linehan, Ruth McCabe, Mikel Murfi and Catherine Walsh.
Rosaleen Linehan and Mikel Murfi have been nominated in the Best Supporting Actress/Actor category in the Irish Times Theatre Awards. The winners will be announced on March 1st.

Riverside Studios
Crisp Road
Hammersmith
London W6 9RL
Nearest Tube: Hammersmith

Performances
Tuesday 3 to Sunday 29 March

Tuesday to Saturday at 8.00pm
Sunday at 7.00pm
Saturday matinee at 2.30pm

TICKETS: £23 (£19 concs.)
Preview on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 5 March: £18 (£15 concs.)
Weekend tickets - Friday and Saturday evenings: £25 (£22 concs.)
Student Groups: £12.50 (groups of 10+, not applicable for Friday and Saturday evening).

Online
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
By Telephone
020 8237 1111

Ticket Prices
£18, £23, £25
Concessions and group rates available

 

 

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