Enda Walsh says working with Bowie on Broadway hit Lazarus was a ‘ridiculous honour’

Irish playwright Enda Walsh has called his experience working with David Bowie on the musical Lazarus, one of the last works Bowie completed before his death in January, a “ridiculous honour,” and said he was aware of the graveness of Bowie’s illness throughout their collaboration.

“It was a year and a half of really wonderful, open collaboration,” Walsh told the Irish Examiner about the play, which opened at New York Theatre Workshop in Manhattan last December.

“He was an extremely generous, very, very funny man. And to make something like Lazarus, which sort of knocked people, which had people going, ‘What the hell is this?’ That was amazing. He wanted to push the form of it and how it was going to come at the audience.”