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It is not very often you get to hear one of Ireland's most exhilarating new voices, Enda Walsh, together with such a revered Irish actors that includes Rosaleen Linehan, Ruth McCabe, Catherine Walsh and Mikel Murfi — a company Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praises as "superlative", "brilliant" and "extraordinary." Therefore, I invite you to spend your final weekend before the holidays with St. Ann's Warehouse and The New Electric Ballroom before it leaves New York for LA. When buying your ticket  

The family that puts on plays together stays together in the latest import from Galway's impressive Druid Ireland to grace a Cal Performances season. That this particular family stays together under extreme duress is part of what makes Enda Walsh's "The Walworth Farce" extremely funny and distressing with almost every breath - or gasp. "Walworth" opened Wednesday at Zellerbach Playhouse for a brief stop (through Sunday) on a long international tour that ends next year in Australia and New Zealand.  

The family that puts on plays together stays together in the latest import from Galway's impressive Druid Ireland to grace a Cal Performances season. That this particular family stays together under extreme duress is part of what makes Enda Walsh's "The Walworth Farce" extremely funny and distressing with almost every breath - or gasp. "Walworth" opened Wednesday at Zellerbach Playhouse for a brief stop (through Sunday) on a long international tour that ends next year in Australia and New Zealand.  

 

Don't let the title throw you off! Enda Walsh's "The Walworth Farce" is a ritual exorcism of demons, some familial, some cultural, that's so deeply disturbing it may keep you up at night. Comedy is just the background here, the main event is sheer terror.  

Group exhibition of work from the Urban Glass studio. Free. 10 am-6 pm. Urban Glass [647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, (718) 625-3685], www.urbanglass.org. Teen writing workshop: With Ned Vizzini. 5 pm.  

The Galway-based Druid Theatre Company, led by artistic director Garry Hynes, on Thursday night achieved a dramatic hat-trick when three plays were staged in Letterkenny, New York and Los Angeles. A production of Tom Murphy's "The Gigli Concert" took place in Co. Donegal, "The New Electric Ballroom" by Enda Walsh is enjoying a successful run in New York, and "The Walworth Farce", by the same author, was performed in Los Angeles as part of a 16-leg world tour.  

Lay of the Land Noted performance artist Tim Miller returns with the regional premiere of his newest personal account of the State of the Queer Union in challenging times. Leaping from a Proposition 8 protest to a strained conversation with the California bear, Miller explores the feeling of being perpetually on trial, on the ballot or on the menu. Opens Friday.  

At first, The Walworth Farce looks like a routine the Three Stooges might have dreamed up -- if Larry, Curly and Moe had been Irish, that is. The extended bit, accompanied by the liltingly sentimental An Irish Lullaby , involves a dad in a bad wig, one grown son in a dress and another whose skull-top has been shaved so that he seems to be balding weirdly. The action is frenetically fast, as farces must be, but before long an unsettling darkness begins playing tug o' war with the comedy.  

Festival director Graeme Farrow tried to bring Mark O'Rowe's award-winning Terminus to Belfast last year. His determination has finally paid off — and now we can see why the play has been the Abbey's most successful production of the last five years. O'Rowe's fizzing, whirling drama brings together three characters to tell of the events of one night in Dublin.