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Walsh's ballroom proves her power

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080807
Author:Lynne Walker

First Night THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM Traverse Theatre ****

Druid, the company that presented J M Synge's complete plays in one memorable day in Edinburgh, is now on a roll with the work of Enda Walsh. Last year it was the surreal goings-on of The Walworth Farce, this year it is the turn of The New Electric Ballroom. Never mind the dance hall, it's the charge in Walsh's language that is dangerously, glitteringly high-voltage. Three spinster sisters (though the youngest could be an illegitimate daughter, perhaps?) live out a barren existence in a small fishing community perched on the edge of ...

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