Author: Enda Walsh File Type: pdf The relationship between words and movement in Enda Walshs new play, in which two weirdly innocent men are trapped in an endless knockabout farce, is more seamless than any Irish dramatist since Beckett. Irish Times Mr. Walshs words in this case are there to feed the adrenaline rush of the event as a whole... you dont so much as see Ballyturk as you surrender to it. New York Times Delirious and captivatingthis is thrilling theatre, visceral and cerebral, hilarious and sad. Irish Examiner I thought we knew everything there was to know . . . The lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What room is this, and what might be beyond the walls? Gut-wrenchingly funny and achingly sad, and featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy, Ballyturk is an ambitious, profound and tender work from one of Irelands leading playwrights. One of our most innovative and beguiling writers, Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Fringe First Awardwinning plays, including The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom. His other plays include Penelope, misterman and the book for the Tony and Olivier Awardwinning musical Once. He also wrote the screenplay for Hunger, which won the Camera dOr at the Cannes Film Festival. **

Author: Martin Bell File Type: epub Martin Bell has served as a corporal in a colonial army, been embedded with British forces, gone on missions with Americans and crossed the Suez Canal with the Israelis. He has kept the company of soldiers, warlords, mercenaries and militias, and even attended one of Idi Amins weddings. From Vietnam to Yemen, Bell has been in the thick of it, witnessing first-hand the dramatic changes in how wars are fought and reported. Drawing on his experiences as a journalist and a soldier, the respected former BBC correspondent provides a moving, personal account of war its futility and its failures and an impassioned take on what weve lost in twenty-first century reporting. The dangers we face today from international terrorism are unprecedented, and TV news, no longer being an eyewitness, censors real world violence and peers across frontiers with the help of unverifiable videos. War and the Death of News is a compelling account of where we have come from and where we now stand, by one of the outstanding TV journalists of our time. **Review codeThought-provoking and hard-hitting. * *Mail on Sunday* *codeNo one is better qualified than Martin Bell to write honestly about the decline of news reporting. Written with passion and clarity this book is an essential read for all who value truth and integrity in journalism. -- Terry Waite CBE codeThroughout the book...[Bell] reflects on the television reporters trade, to which he brought so much distinction. He sees it as doomed, a result of hotel rooftop reporting from war zones by correspondents harried by hourly demands for new content, the celebrification of so much news and the shrinking of foreign coverage in both broadcasting and newspapers. * John Lloyd, *Literary Review* *codeWry, funny and trenchant, saluting the end of an era. -- Kate Adie codeIn prose as crisp and hard-hitting as the bullets hes dodged for decades, Bell sounds the alarm for a TV journalism thats under fire as never before. Its typical Bell - unflinching truth-telling, brilliantly argued a clarion call to everyone who cares about powerful journalism in a world that needs it more than ever. -- Bill Neely, chief global correspondent, NBC NewscodeMartin Bell is the finest foreign correspondent of his generation... With wisdom, candour and integrity, he describes the irony and tragedy of the wars, revolutions and riots he covered in violent places all over the world. He is especially critical of editors at home who kept the public from seeing the ugly truth of what happened in places like Bosnia, Iraq and Israel. This is his masterwork. -- John Laurence, author of The Cat from Hue A Vietnam War Story Review In prose as crisp and hard-hitting as the bullets hes dodged for decades, Bell sounds the alarm for a TV journalism thats under fire as never before. Its typical Bell unflinching truth-telling, brilliantly argued a clarion call to everyone who cares about powerful journalism in a world that needs it more than ever. Bill Neely, chief global correspondent, NBC News Martin Bell is the finest foreign correspondent of his generation. Night after night on the BBC, we watched him find the front lines and report back to us with honesty, courage and compassion. The same virtues are evident in this fearless memoir, which spans thirty-five years of his work. With wisdom, candour and integrity, he describes the irony and tragedy of the wars, revolutions and riots he covered in violent places all over the world. He is especially critical of editors at home who kept the public from seeing the ugly truth of what happened in places like Bosnia, Iraq and Israel. This is his masterwork. John Laurence, author of The Cat from Hue A Vietnam War Story