GALWAY'S DRUID Theatre has been listed among the top 10 theatre highlights in 2010 by the New York Timesfor its production of Penelope.
“God bless the Irish, who continue to produce originally, exhilaratingly word-drunk playwrights like Enda Walsh, whose mind-spinning variation on Homer’s Odyssey came to St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn,” the newspaper’s chief theatre critic Ben Brantley wrote.
Walsh's Penelope, directed by Mikel Murfi for Druid, had its debut at this year's Galway Theatre Festival and staged its US premiere in New York in October.
The production is due to be staged in London and Washington DC early next year.
The tribute is the second time in five years that the theatre company has received a highlight listing with the newspaper.
In the New York Timesin 2006, Charles Isherwood described DruidSynge as "a highlight not just of my theatre-going year but of my theatre-going life."
The plaudit comes in a week when the company has initiated a new creative partnership with its former alma mater, NUI Galway