[1] Walsh states that Ballyturk should "‘bypass the intellect and go straight to the bones.’"[2] The play was first performed at the Black Box Theatre, Galway on July 14, 2014 in a co-production between Landmark Productions and the Galway International Arts Festival.
It was the winner of the award for Best Production at the 2015 Irish Times Theatre Awards[4] The 2014 production starring Cillian Murphy has been compared to Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood.
In this revival - again produced by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival - Tadhg Murphy played 1, Mikel Murfi returned as 2 and Olwen Fouere played 3.
[7] Two unnamed male characters (1, in his late 30s, and 2, in his mid-40s)[8] live in a single-room dwelling and discuss an imaginary town in Ireland called Ballyturk.
A third, older, unnamed male (3) enters from the outside and explains that one must stay and the other leave.