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Enda Walsh est un Acteur et Ecrivain Irlandais né le 1 janvier 1967 à Dublin (Irlande)
Enda Walsh (born 1967) is an Irish playwright.
Winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker and the George Devine Awards, he won the 2006 Abbey Theatre Writer in Association Award and the 2010 Obie Award for playwriting. Productions of his plays at the Edinburgh Festival have won four Edinburgh Fringe First Awards, two Critic's Awards and a Herald Archangel Award (2008). His plays, notably Disco Pigs, Bedbound, Small Things, Chatroom, New Electric Ballroom, The Walworth Farce, Penelope and Misterman, have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had productions throughout Europe and in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. He has written two radio plays, with Four Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks for RTÉ winning the PPI Award for Best Radio Drama (2001) and The Monotonous Life of Little Miss P for the BBC commended at the Berlin Prix Europa (2003). His commissioned work includes plays for Paines Plough in London, the Druid Theatre in Galway, the Kammerspiele in Munich and the Royal National Theatre's Connections Project in London. He participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six, for which he wrote a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible. He has written the musical Once, an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Once, which appeared off-Broadway in December 2011 and January 2012 and transferred to Broadway from March 2012 and will also run in London's West End from March 2013: it has won numerous awards, including 8 Tony Awards and a Grammy Award (see below).
Enda won the 1999 Cork Film Centre/RTE Short Script Award for his short film Not a Bad Christmas. He wrote the screenplay of the film Disco Pigs, which starred Cilian Murphy, and co-wrote the screenplay of Hunger which was directed by Steve McQueen and starred Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who starved himself to death in protest over British rule. Hunger won numerous awards (see below) including the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, Best Film Award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009 and a nomination for Best British Film at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards. He wrote an adaptation of his play Chatroom for a film directed by Hideo Nakata which was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently under commission for three films, an adaptation of the children's story Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson (for Cuba Pictures), a film entitled 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 Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps.
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Born in Dublin, Walsh lives in London. He attended the same secondary school in which Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier taught. After writing for the Dublin Youth Theatre, he moved to Cork where he wrote Fishy Tales for the Graffiti Theatre Company, followed by Ginger Ale Boy for Corcadorca Theatre Company. His main breakthrough came with the production of his play Disco Pigs in collaboration with director Pat Kiernan of Corcadorca. Since he moved to London he has been particularly prolific from 2005, bringing his productions to seventeen stage plays, two radio plays, three screenplays and one musical for which he won a Tony Award.Winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker and the George Devine Awards, he won the 2006 Abbey Theatre Writer in Association Award and the 2010 Obie Award for playwriting. Productions of his plays at the Edinburgh Festival have won four Edinburgh Fringe First Awards, two Critic's Awards and a Herald Archangel Award (2008). His plays, notably Disco Pigs, Bedbound, Small Things, Chatroom, New Electric Ballroom, The Walworth Farce, Penelope and Misterman, have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had productions throughout Europe and in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. He has written two radio plays, with Four Big Days in the Life of Dessie Banks for RTÉ winning the PPI Award for Best Radio Drama (2001) and The Monotonous Life of Little Miss P for the BBC commended at the Berlin Prix Europa (2003). His commissioned work includes plays for Paines Plough in London, the Druid Theatre in Galway, the Kammerspiele in Munich and the Royal National Theatre's Connections Project in London. He participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six, for which he wrote a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible. He has written the musical Once, an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film Once, which appeared off-Broadway in December 2011 and January 2012 and transferred to Broadway from March 2012 and will also run in London's West End from March 2013: it has won numerous awards, including 8 Tony Awards and a Grammy Award (see below).
Enda won the 1999 Cork Film Centre/RTE Short Script Award for his short film Not a Bad Christmas. He wrote the screenplay of the film Disco Pigs, which starred Cilian Murphy, and co-wrote the screenplay of Hunger which was directed by Steve McQueen and starred Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who starved himself to death in protest over British rule. Hunger won numerous awards (see below) including the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, Best Film Award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2009 and a nomination for Best British Film at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards. He wrote an adaptation of his play Chatroom for a film directed by Hideo Nakata which was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently under commission for three films, an adaptation of the children's story Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson (for Cuba Pictures), a film entitled 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 Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps.
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Disco Pigs (2001)
, 1h33Réalisé par Kirsten Sheridan
Origine Irlande
Genres Drame
Thèmes La musique, Théâtre, Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brían F. O'Byrne, Geraldine O'Rawe, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Marie Mullen
Rôle Hitchhiker
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Deux enfants nés le même jour dans le même hôpital sont complices et inséparables. Mais à l'approche de leur 17e anniversaire, tout va basculer.
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Ch@troom (2010)
, 1h37Réalisé par Hideo Nakata
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Thriller
Thèmes Le suicide, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Murray, Imogen Poots, Matthew Beard, Tuppence Middleton, Jack Gleeson
Rôle Pièce de théatre
Note54%
Le film suit l'histoire de cinq adolescents qui se rencontrent sur internet et s'entraident pour résoudre leurs problèmes familiaux, amicaux et sentimentaux. La situation dérape lorsque l'un d'eux, Jim, dépressif depuis l'enfance, cherche à effacer son passé. Il va rencontrer William qui dit pouvoir l'aider à résoudre ses problèmes.
Hunger (2008)
, 1h36Réalisé par Steve McQueen
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Historique
Thèmes La prison, Religion, Le suicide, Le terrorisme, Politique, Conflit nord-irlandais
Acteurs Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Karen Hassan, Stuart Graham
Rôle Ecrivain
Note74%
Dans les années 1970, des prisonniers de l'Armée républicaine irlandaise provisoire et de l'INLA mènent une grève de l'hygiène à la prison de Maze en Irlande du Nord. Cette action a pour but de faire reconnaître par le gouvernement britannique un statut politique à leur détention. Le rapport de force qui s'instaure s'accentue encore quand Bobby Sands, meneur du mouvement, décide d'entamer une grève de la faim en 1981
Disco Pigs (2001)
, 1h33Réalisé par Kirsten Sheridan
Origine Irlande
Genres Drame
Thèmes La musique, Théâtre, Musique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brían F. O'Byrne, Geraldine O'Rawe, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Marie Mullen
Rôle Ecrivain
Note64%
Deux enfants nés le même jour dans le même hôpital sont complices et inséparables. Mais à l'approche de leur 17e anniversaire, tout va basculer.