Southwark Playhouse has announced the full cast for The Walworth Farce, its first major production to run at its brand-new space in Elephant and Castle. The new space - Southwark Playhouse Elephant, is welcoming a revival of Enda Walsh’s award winning The Walworth Farce as its debut full scale production, held in its 310-seat main auditorium.
The new venue, situated in Dante Place, is a literal stone’s throw from Walworth Road; making The Walworth Farce (set precisely in council accommodation on that street) a particularly apt choice.
Dan Skinner, Emmet Byrne, Killian Coyle and Rachelle Diedericks will make up the four-person cast in this dark comic tale. Directed by Nicky Allpress.
It's eleven o'clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours' time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours' time, as is normal, five people will have been killed.
In a little over two hours’ time, as is less normal, a further two will have met their maker.
Southwark Playhouse is delighted to announce the full cast for its first major production to run at its brand new space in Elephant and Castle. The new space - Southwark Playhouse Elephant, is welcoming a revival of Enda Walsh’s award winning The Walworth Farce as its debut full scale production, held in its 310-seat main auditorium.
The new venue, situated in Dante Place, is a literal stone’s throw from Walworth Road; making The Walworth Farce (set precisely in council accommodation on that street) a particularly apt choice. The work, fully produced by Southwark Playhouse - will run from February 17 - March 18, 2023 and is directed by Nicky Allpress with design by Anisha Field and lighting design by Lucía Sánchez Roldán.
The Walworth Farce is a remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. Visceral and tender, the play combines hilarious moments with shocking realism. First performed in Galway, Cork and Dublin in 2006 it was revived at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2007 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First award. The play received its London premiere at the National Theatre in September 2008.