Audience Reaction to Enda Walsh’s Bathroom

See what GIAF 17 audiences had to say about Galway International Arts Festival’s Bathroom by Enda Walsh, which is running as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2017.

"Frighteningly close to home" and "completely different" are just some of the things GIAF audiences had to say about this GIAF installation, the fourth in a series of theatre installations, titled Rooms, by Enda Walsh, following on from Room 303, A Girl’s Bedroom and Kitchen.

A man with a breaking memory tries to stick the pieces together and find some salvation. In a house that isn’t his house – in the bathroom of that house – and staring back from the bathroom’s mirror – is a man he no longer knows.

“The line between my birth and here looks like it’s been drawn by some child. It’s there under my feet and dug into the lino. I can hear it. Teasing me.”

For audience reaction to Enda Walsh’s previous work in this series, see here.

Three of the installations in the ‘Rooms’ series, Kitchen, A Girl’s Bedroom and Room 303, made their New York premiere in May this year.

Rooms were presented by the Irish Arts Center on a site-specific location, a former garage, Cybert Tire, on the corner of W51st St and 11th Avenue, Manhattan, New York. The grounds form part of the future home of the new Irish Arts Center.

See here.

Room 303 is set within the musty bedroom of an old seaside boarding house; A Girl’s Bedroom is set in the pink haze of a young girl’s room untouched for some time; while Kitchen is set within a long and narrow galley kitchenette.