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Originally published
  
2014

Composer
  
Teho Teardo


Playwright
  
Enda Walsh

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Ballyturk written and directed by enda walsh


Ballyturk is a play by Enda Walsh.

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The play was first performed at the 2014 Galway International Arts Festival. 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) 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

  • Cillian Murphy as 1
  • Mikel Murfi as 2
  • Stephen Rea as 3
  • and others

    References

    Ballyturk Wikipedia