Penelope
Cast: 1f (non-speaking) 4m
Staging: Single built set (drained swimming pool)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
8 Jul 2010Size: 198mm x 129mm
15 Oct 2014
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- Edinburgh Fringe First Award - 2010
A savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, whose story is recounted in Homer's Odyssey.
It's 11.30 a.m. and already it's thirty-three degrees Celsius. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculous men face their inevitable deaths, and play for an unwinnable love.
Enda Walsh's play Penelope was first performed by Druid Theatre Company in Druid Lane Theatre at the Galway Arts Festival in July 2010. The production subsequently toured to Edinburgh (where it won a Fringe First Award), Helsinki and New York. A version of the play in German had previously been performed at Theater Oberhausen, Germany, in February 2010.
Penelope is also available in the collection Enda Walsh Plays: Two.
'Mixes classical myth with a bit of Beckett, as interpreted by Father Ted after watching an episode of Lost'
Sunday Times'Extraordinary theatre... terrifying'
Sunday Independent, Ireland'Among the finest plays Walsh has written'
Sunday Times, Ireland'A wild, crazy, word-drunk piece that is destined to lodge in the memory... Walsh possesses a truly original theatrical voice'
GuardianCast: 1f (non-speaking) 4m
Staging:Single built set (drained swimming pool)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
8 Jul 2010Size: 198mm x 129mm
15 Oct 2014
