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Tony Award-winning Playwright Enda Walsh in Conversation with Michael Cadden

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endaDiscussing his musical adaption of the film Once and his earlier works—Disco Pigs and Hunger—with Lewis Center for the Arts Chair Michael Cadden

In conversation with Lewis Center for the Arts Chair Michael Cadden, Irish playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh will discuss his theatrical and film work, including the Tony Award-winning musical Once, plays such as Disco Pigs, The Walworth Farce and Misterman, and his screenplay for the Steve McQueen film Hunger.  Part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies, the event will take place on Friday, November 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street.  The event is free and open to the public.

Walsh shot to fame when he won both the George Devine Award and the Stewart Parker Award in 1997 for his breakthrough play Disco Pigs. Since then he has written several more widely produced and translated plays, including The New Electric Ballroom and Penelope.  He is the author of five Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award-winning worksHis musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Once won eight Tony Awards in 2012, including Best Musical and Best Book for a Musical.

Walsh is also a screenwriter.  He has adapted two of his plays for the screen, Disco Pigs and Chatroom.  Hunger, co-written with director McQueen, tells the story of the final days of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, played by Michael Fassbender; it won a host of awards, including the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Heartbeat Award at the Dinard International Film Festival.  Hunger was nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards (including Best Screenplay), six British Film and Television Awards (including Best Screenplay, and Best Independent Film) and BAFTA’s Outstanding British Film Award 2009.

Walsh is currently at work on three films, an adaptation of Eva Ibbotson’s children’s story Island of the Aunts; Jules in the City, based on the life and music of Rufus Wainwright; and an adaptation of Gitta Sereny’s book Into That Darkness, about the life of SS commandant Franz Stangl.


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Photo caption:  Playwright Enda Walsh will discuss his award-winning work with Lewis Center for the Arts Chair Michael Cadden, as part of a series presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton

Photo credit:  Photo courtesy of Enda Walsh

 

 

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