The New Electric Ballroom
by Enda Walsh
What readers are saying
Readers appreciate the play's unique blend of absurdity and emotional depth, noting its dark humor and theatrical brilliance. Many feel that while it might not be Walsh's finest work, it still surpasses many other productions. The writing is highlighted as stark and deeply affecting, capturing the audience's attention with its rawness and creativity.
Synopsis
A dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life, from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.
Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2008
Three sisters in a remote fishing village, trapped in the years that have passed since their halcyon days at The New Electric Ballroom, are still obsessed by darker memories of something resembling romance.
'a beautiful and devastating play of broken hearts and maimed lives...
Walsh confirms himself as one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre, and one who has a direct conduit to our wanting hearts' - Guardian
'shatteringly fine theatre' - Scotsman
Publication
The New Electric Ballroom is a British drama play written by Enda Walsh and published by Nick Hern Books in London (2008).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books (eISBN 9781780013220).
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