Selected Plays

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 9780813206271
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571085865
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Broadway hit about a young Irishman on the eve of his emigration to America.

Aristocrats

Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

Translations

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573618710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86

Book Description
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.

Brian Friel Plays 1

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571300634
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
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.

Faith Healer

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Faber & Faber Plays
ISBN: 9780571333882
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Lovers

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9780871292452
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
A collection of jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, tricks, games, poems, and stories.

Dancing at Lughnasa

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822213024
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
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

Collected Plays

Author: Brian Friel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781852356767
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Brian Friel

Author: Nesta Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571197798
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
Is your enjoyment of Brian Friel's work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Friel and need reliable guide to the plays? A Faber Critical Guide to Brian Friel's major work gives all this and more.It gives an introduction to the distinctive features of the playwright's work; it explains the significance of the playwright in the context of modern theatre; it provides a detailed analysis of each of the classic plays in terms of language, structure and character; and it includes features of performance and a select bibliography.Compiled by experts in their field, for use in the classroom, college or at home, Faber Critical Guides are the essential companions to the work of leading dramatists.