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"Brian Friel" (11 results)
The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. Now his...
Matthew Bannister on the award winning Irish playwright Brian Friel, best known for Dancing At Lughnasa and Translations.
Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres direct Fathers and Sons by Brian Friel, a dynamic dramatisation of Turgenev's novel.
Film about a playwright who began his career as a short story writer. His work includes classics such as Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Tran...
Athchuairt ar Translations traces the genesis and impact of Brian Friel's play and follows the journey of director Adrian Dunbar and his cast as t...
Brian Friel's Olivier Award-winning play, Dancing at Lughnasa, reflecting rural Ireland in the 1930s, returns to London for the first major r...
Clare will be talking to actor Daragh O'Malley about this new staging of Brian Friel's Tony and Olivier award winning play, Dancing at Lughnasa.
In 1833, two army officers arrive in a Donegal village to draw up a new map of the area and change the Irish place names to English ones. Stars...
The night before he emigrates to America, Gareth O'Donnell begins to have second thoughts about leaving his home in the rural...
Set in County Donegal in Northern Ireland, the play concerns the British Army's Ordnance survey of the land and the problems caused by their standardisation (an...
Mark Lawson presents review of the cultural highlights of the week including a feature on 'Dancing at Lughnasa'.
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