Overview

'Best of all, though, is Enda Walsh's grandiose Penelope, which mixes classical myth with a bit of Beckett, as interpreted by Father Ted after watching an episode of Lost.' The Sunday Times

It's 11:30am and already it's 33 Celsius. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculous men play for an unwinnable love. Uproarious, farcical and bizarre, a slice of Homer’s Odyssey is re-imagined in a surreal fable for our times.

Druid, one of Ireland's finest theatre companies, renews its celebrated partnership with Enda Walsh, following their worldwide sell-out and Edinburgh Fringe First winning productions The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farce. They join forces once again with The Walworth Farce director Mikel Murfi in this exhilarating new offering.

'Walsh confirms himself as one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre.' The Guardian