Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Tadhg Murphy and Raymond Scannell in The Walworth FarcePhoto: Druid Ireland 2009I’m a firm believer that anytime you can sit in a play for 30 minutes totally caught up in what’s going on onstage and still think to yourself “What the hell is going on'” is time well spent. Such is the case with Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce which is currently in a run of...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The Walworth Farce: Dark comedy. By Enda Walsh. Directed by Mikel Murfi. With Michael Glenn Murphy, Tadhg Murphy, Raymond Scannell and Mercy Ojelade. Through Sunday. Druid Ireland, Cal Performances, Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley....
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... without his wife, has more or less immured his two sons, Sean (Tadhg Murphy) and Blake (Raymond Scannell) to live in the fun house of his distorted memories. Crowded together, the sons try to make room for their own poignant recollections “of the smell of Mammy’s cooking” and the chicken that was still stuck in the wool of their jumpers when they first came over as tots. Walsh has...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
If Quentin Tarantino wrote a play for the Three Stooges, the result might look a lot like Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, a darkly comic play running Wednesday through Nov. 7 in the Carnival Studio Theater at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Raymond Scannell and Tadhg Murphy, part of the cast from Ireland's Druid Theater Company, play sons who ritualistically act...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Dinny (Michael Glenn Murphy) and his two lads, Sean (Tadhg Murphy) and Blake (Raymond Scannell) pass every morning the same way. Sean goes to the local supermarket and brings back some funny props—a chicken, a loaf of bread, a can of Harp and so on. And then Dinny forces his grown but imprisoned boys to re-enact a madcap farce, replete with costumes, lights and wild over-acting. Over...
