Once takes to the stage again

The hit Broadway adaptation of the acclaimed romantic film won eight Tony awards and is opening in Dublin tonight. Its writer Enda Walsh talks to Pádraic Killeen

A SMASH on Broadway in 2012, the musical Once opens in the Gaiety Theatre tonight. Once is an adaptation of John Carney’s successful 2006 film of the same name, and won eight Tony awards.

Enda Walsh won for his script. That Walsh — the acclaimed writer of blackly comic plays like Disco Pigs, The Walworth Farce, and Misterman — is now the author of a hit Broadway musical seems unlikely.