Splinter Theatre Company

"...strong and understated production... beautifully acted and engrossing" SMH, 22 August

Enda Walsh

Sarah Goodes

Annie Byron and Ralph Cotterill

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Two houses, perched on top of mountains, stare at each other across a deep valley.

Prompted by their alarm clocks, a woman and a man tell their story and talk about the small things – the parquet floor zigzagging down corridors, the memory of mother’s breasts, the first time they fell in love with each other as children. But these minutiae disguise a bigger story of horrific brutality in their village, of people’s desire for order at the cost of humanity and of unfaltering loyalty which emerges painfully through the chit-chat.

After global success with his plays Disco Pigs and Bedbound, Enda Walsh is considered one of the most exhilarating playwrights of his generation. The Small Things is a poignant exploration of language and our need for words to create meaning, to remember our past and to survive.

“This is a small play about the big things and the writing is harrowingly precise and poetic.” The Guardian (UK)

“In part a comic tour de force… and in part a numbing horror story” Time Out (UK)

Previews

Thursday 16 August, 8.15pm

Performance Times

Tuesday 7pm, Wednesday - Saturday 8.15pm, Sunday 5.15pm