A strange, tender love story from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.

In a waiting room, inside a tower, Isla waits for her number to be called. A young woman finally understands her fate. And a young man faces a stark decision.

In the midst of a bleak and terrifying world, Arlington is a compelling ode to the human spirit and its power to endure. It premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in 2016 in a production by the festival and Landmark Productions, directed by the playwright.

Enda Walsh's play Arlington is published in this edition alongside three short theatre installations - Kitchen, A Girl's Bedroom and Room 303 - performed at the 2016 Galway International Arts Festival under the collective title Rooms.

About the Author

Enda Walsh's other plays include Disco Pigs, The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, Penelope, Misterman and Ballyturk. He wrote the book for the musical Once, Lazarus with David Bowie, the opera The Last Hotel, and the screenplay for Hunger, which won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Reviews

'A riveting fever dream of a play... imagine if Samuel Beckett wrote Black Mirror: that's Arlington'

* New York Times *

'A powerful dystopian drama... a new form of comprehensive, category-defying theatre'

* Guardian *

'Tremendous... [a] beautifully stylised study of compassion and conditioning in the modern world'

* The Stage *

'Angry, despairing, eruptive and eventually accepting, this is not a play about grief. This is grief'

* Irish Times *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848426054
Author Enda Walsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books