Enda Walsh Archives - Chicago Reader

A woman with long curly hair sits on top of a table at left. She is wearing a long dress in an orange, brown, and red pattern, with a brown cardigan over it. The table is white Formica, with scalloped edges and flowered patterns in the corners. At right in a chair sits a man in an Irish fisherman's sweater and gray pants. He is looking at the woman, who is staring off in the middle distance. She is wearing headphones.

Dublin songs

by Kerry Reid March 2, 2023March 11, 2023

Romantic regret and stubborn optimism seem as intertwined in the national character of Ireland as a Saint Brigid’s cross, and those qualities suffuse Once, the 2012 musical adapted by Irish playwright Enda Walsh from John Carney’s original 2007 screenplay of the same title. That this Irish tale, which is not quite a love story but […]

Film

The House

by Dmitry Samarov February 11, 2022February 11, 2022

The framing device of setting different stories in the same location is a well-worn trope, but it works beautifully here, lending a starting point for three very different visions.