The Small Things
Will be published approx. on 13. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-85459-843-1 (ISBN)
Description
A fierce and devastating fable about enforced silence.
Two houses, each perched on a mountain top, stare at each other across a deep valley. A man and a woman talk about the small things - parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, the memory of mother's breasts, brown sauce and soggy chips. But these minutiae disguise a bigger story of brutality and unfaltering loyalty which emerges horrifically through the chit chat.
Enda Walsh's play The Small Things was first performed by Paines Plough as part of the 'This Other England' season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in January 2005.
Two houses, each perched on a mountain top, stare at each other across a deep valley. A man and a woman talk about the small things - parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, the memory of mother's breasts, brown sauce and soggy chips. But these minutiae disguise a bigger story of brutality and unfaltering loyalty which emerges horrifically through the chit chat.
Enda Walsh's play The Small Things was first performed by Paines Plough as part of the 'This Other England' season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in January 2005.
Reviews / Votes
'Walsh once again proves himself an inspired wordsmith' * Daily Telegraph * 'Walsh's beautiful, terrible play... is a small play about the big things and the writing is harrowingly precise and poetic' * Guardian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
80 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-843-1 (9781854598431)
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Person
Enda Walsh is an Irish playwright, born in Dublin. A former recipient of the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright and winner of numerous other awards (including four Edinburgh Fringe First awards), his works include Disco Pigs, Misterman, Chatroom and the book for Once: The Musical. He has also written for film, including the screenplay for the 2008 film Hunger, winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.