Solas Nua

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“In part a comic tour de force… and in part a numbing horror story.” TIME OUT

The Small Things
by Enda Walsh
Directed by Kathleen Akerley
Featuring Kate Debelack & Chris Davenport

At Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW
January 31st – February 25th, 2007
Thursday - Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
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"If writers paint pictures with words, then Irish playwright Enda Walsh is a graphic novelist — and in this U.S. premiere staged by the contemporary Irish theater company Solas Nua, Mr. Walsh's stark, black-and-white imagery wells in your mind like blood blisters."
The Washington Times – Jayne Blanchar

"Walsh's writing blends comedy and tragedy into an emotionally powerful package."
Variety Magazine – Paul Harris

"…impeccably staged … Davenport and Debelack give nuanced, heartrending and, at times, very funny performances… an auspicious start to their second season. It is groups like this that make being a fan of live theater in the Washington area such a pleasure."
DC Examiner – Doug Krentzlin

"So seductive are those rhythms, and so quietly domestic—so gentle and
rueful and even funny—is the scene Debelack and Davenport create ….
And Kathleen Akerley's exquisitely tender production orchestrates it all so delicately…"
Washington City Paper – Trey Graham

"Kathleen Akerley creates a visually beautiful production."
"Marianne Meadows's lighting is splendid."
*The Washington Post – Nelson Pressley
*spoiler alert

"If you liked Mr. Walsh's Disco Pigs, Misterman or Bedbound, savor a good horror story,
or find language and its poetic nature stimulating — you've found your play."
Curtainup.com – Rich See

"This is a play of brilliant theatrical musings that entertains our senses and brings
far more shivers than DC's recent wintry nights."
DC Theatre Reviews - Ronnie Ruff

The last two people left in the world. They have to speak to stay alive. Who will have the last word?

Two houses, perched on top of mountains, stare at each other across a deep valley. A man and a woman talk about the small things – parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, the memory of mother’s breasts, brown sauce and soggy chips. But these minutiae disguise a bigger story of brutality and unfaltering loyalty which emerges horrifically through the chit-chat.

Sponsored by The Mead Theatre Lab Program.

Other plays by Enda Walsh include: Chatroom, for NT Shell Connections, produced in the Cottesloe, London in March- April 2006. The Small Things for Paines Plough, March 2005 and Galway Arts Festival 2005; Bedbound first produced by the Dublin Theatre Festival 2001, then Edinburgh Fringe 2002 (Fringe First winner), New York, London (Royal Court) and currently worldwide; Misterman, first staged at the Granary Theatre, Cork, and currently in production in Germany, Hungary and Spain; Disco Pigs, Arts Council Playwrights' Award, Best Production Dublin Fringe 1996, and played at Edinburgh Fringe 1997, London (Bush Theatre)1998, Winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker and George Devine Awards. Solas Nua has previously produced Bedbound, Misterman and Disco Pigs.