Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813206271
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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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: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571331750
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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This first collection of Brian Friel's dramatic work contains: The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964) The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle Island (1971)
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822213024
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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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: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571085865
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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Broadway hit about a young Irishman on the eve of his emigration to America.
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573618710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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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.
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472067107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Faber & Faber Plays
ISBN: 9780571333882
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781904505174
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Essays on Irish playwright, Brian Friel
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571300634
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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With the production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964, Brian Friel established his claim to be the true heir of such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey and Beckett. Since then his work has consistently demonstrated that his strength is an equal awareness of the conditions of individual lives and the historical and political forces affecting them. The plays in this first volume ( Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Living Quarters, Aristocrats, Faith Healer and Translations) are introduced by Professor Seamus Deane of University College, Dublin.
Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571331858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 525
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This second collection of Brian Friel's work contains: The Freedom of the City (1973) Volunteers (1975) Living Quarters (1977) Aristocrats (1979) (March) Faith Healer (1979) (April) Translations (1980)
