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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. '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

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'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 *

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Enda Walsh is a multi-award-winning Irish playwright. He lives in London. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and has been performed internationally since 1998. His recent plays include Arlington at the 2016 Galway International Festival; an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits for the Royal Court (2015); Ballyturk and Room 303 at the 2014 Galway International Arts Festival; Misterman, presented by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival in Ireland, London and New York (2011–2012); and several plays for Druid Theatre Company, including Penelope, which has been presented in Ireland, America and London, from 2010–2011, The New Electric Ballroom, which played Ireland, Australia, Edinburgh, London, New York and LA from 2008–2009, and The Walworth Farce, which played Ireland, Edinburgh, London and New York, as well as an American and Australian tour, from 2007–2010. He collaborated with David Bowie on the musical Lazarus (New York Theatre Workshop, 2015, and West End, 2016), and won a Tony Award in 2012 for writing the book for the musical Once, seen on Broadway, in the West End and on a US tour. His other plays include Delirium (Theatre O/Barbican), which played Dublin and a British tour in 2008; Chatroom (National Theatre), which played at the National Theatre and on tour in Britain and Asia (2006–2007); and The Small Things (Paines Plough), which played London and Ireland (2005). His early plays include Bedbound (Dublin Theatre Festival) and Disco Pigs (Corcadorca). His film work includes Disco Pigs (Temple Films/Renaissance) and Hunger (Blast/FILM4), winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

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