Playful turn for Kilmeen drama The Walworth Farce

"What are we without our stories?" asks Dinny, the father of two young men in Enda Walsh’s bizarre homicidal drama, The Walworth Farce.

Kilmeen Drama Group is staging the play at the Cork Opera House on April 29.

Dinny, played by Christie O’Sullivan, is a controlling figure who, every day, in a filthy council flat in London, re-enacts, with his sons, the story of how they came from Cork to London. This is the play within the play, the vehicle through which the family tries to understand its history. But Dinny, who has been in London for 20 years, doesn’t reveal the whole truth of the story because it’s too traumatic. He has a dark past.