RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Book review Enda Walsh, The Walworth farce & The new electric ballroom. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2009 A1 Herrero Martín, Rosana A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Libros - Reseñas AB These two recent and acclaimed plays by Enda Walsh are meant to be atandem billboard featuring a set of idiosyncratic issues, or as we may allowourselves to call them, by now, “Walshian obsessions.” Namely, the viciousneed to replay the darkest pitfalls of one’s own family past; the ritualistic, cyclicand punctilious nature of the paraphernalia and wording involved within thisperformative procedure; together with the exploration of its dubious range ofloyalty to reality, and the limits of its transfigurative and therapeutic effects. SN 0210-9689 YR 2010 FD 2010 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22688 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22688 LA eng NO ES: revista de filología inglesa, 2010, N. 31, pags. 299-304 DS UVaDOC RD 26-abr-2024