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.
An exploration of language and our need for words to survive, The Small Things was commissioned and premiered by Paines Plough, one of Britain's leading new-writing companies.
An old couple in a bare room with a high window are compelled to tell a grisly tale: A village in which peoples tongues are cut out, among other horrific tortures, making them The Silent. From the author of Disco Pigs and Bedbound, this is a startling Beckettian fable. It tours Scotland and England in early 2005 before beginning a run in London.
An alarming new play from the author of Disco Pigs.
Recenzijos
'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 *
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.
