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Brian Friel Plays 1 * by Friel Brian
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Contemporary Classics
A collection of six plays by the Irish playwright, Brian Friel.
Brian Friel: Plays 3: Three Sisters; A Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay; Performances; The Home Place; Hedda Gabler by Brian Friel
Category: Classics
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 Leo Jan cek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories ...Show more
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
Category: Fiction
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his ...Show more
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
Category: Poetry & Plays
One of the masterpieces of Ireland's greatest living playwright, Faith Healer weaves together the stories of a travelling healer, his wife and his manager. From their different versions of the healer's performances and a terrible event at the centre of the drama, Friel creates a powerful and haunting wo ...Show more
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
One of the masterpieces of Ireland's greatest living playwright, Faith Healer weaves together the stories of a travelling healer, his wife and his manager. From their different versions of the healer's performances and a terrible event at the centre of the drama, Friel creates a powerful and haunting wo ...Show more
HENRIK IBSEN'S HEDDA GABLER by FRIEL BRIAN
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Hedda Gabler returns, dissatisfied, from a long honeymoon. Bored by her aspiring academic husband, she foresees a life of tedious convention. And so, aided and abetted by her predatory confidante, Judge Brack, she begins to manipulate the fates of those around her to devastating effect. Brian Friel's ve ...Show more
Making History by Brian Friel
Category: Performing Arts
The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale, at which the alliance was defeated: with O'Neill a ...Show more
Translations by Brian Friel
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
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 pla ...Show more
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