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Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0571309879 |
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This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and of Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Performances 'A minor work the way Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or Beckett's Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.' Sunday Times The Home Place 'A rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friel's masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.' Guardian Hedda Gabler 'Across the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a 'new version', but something altogether larger.' The Irish Times
Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780813206271 |
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Contents: Philadelphia, Here I Come; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations Brian Friel was born in County Tyrone in 1929 and worked as a teacher before turning to full-time writing in 1960. His first stage success was in 1964 with Philadelphia, Here I Come, which established his claim as heir to such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, and Behan. In 1979 he and actor Stephen Rea formed the Field Day Theatre Company, whose first theatrical production was Friel's Translations in 1980. Also included in this selection are The Freedom of the City, set in Londonderry in 1970; Living Quarters, which Desmond MacAvok in the Evening Presscalled "one of the most fascinating and, in the end, truly moving evenings. . .in Irish Theatre"; Faith Healer, a metaphoric depiction of the artist and his gift' and Aristocrats, "as fine and as stimulating and as warm a piece of writing as had appeared on the Irish stage for many years," according to David Nowland, the Irish Times. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780573618710 |
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The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.
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Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Aristocracy (Social class) |
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Author | : Anthony Roche |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2006-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827677 |
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Brian Friel is widely recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright, winning an international reputation through such acclaimed works as Translations (1980) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). This 2006 collection of specially commissioned essays includes contributions from leading commentators on Friel's work (including two fellow playwrights) and explores the entire range of his career from his 1964 breakthrough with Philadelphia, Here I Come! to his most recent success in Dublin and London with The Home Place (2005). The essays approach Friel's plays both as literary texts and as performed drama, and provide the perfect introduction for students of both English and Theatre Studies, as well as theatregoers. The collection considers Friel's lesser-known works alongside his more celebrated plays and provides a comprehensive critical survey of his career. This is a comprehensive study of Friel's work, and includes a chronology and further reading suggestions.
Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0571301029 |
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This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janácek, the passion he felt for a married woman nearly forty years his junior, and his final surge of creative energy. Performances premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2003.
Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : Dramatic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780871292452 |
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A collection of jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, tricks, games, poems, and stories.
Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822213024 |
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THE STORY: This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in l936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken
Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber Plays |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Domestic drama |
ISBN | : 9780571331789 |
Download Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 3 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel: The Enemy Within (1962); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964); The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966); Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967); Crystal and Fox (1968); and, The Gentle Island (1971).
Author | : Brian Friel |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber Plays |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780571333882 |
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A about the life of the faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy.