The epigraph to Kevin Barry’s new collection of short stories is a quotation from the great New Zealand-born film-maker Jane Campion: “I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us, and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it’s not part of a sensible way of living. It’s a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it’s a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.”
Dancing at Lughnasa casts a spell before the actors utter a word. Irish music peppily plays as you enter the theater and drink in Yu-Hsuan Chen’s painterly set–with sinuously twisted old trees and a stone country cottage rendered in ochres, browns and golds that suggests the Arts and Crafts style.
‘Two By Friel’ at the Irish Repertory Theatre, New York The Irish Repertory Theatre presents ‘Two by Friel’ – a special evening celebrating the 50th anniversary of Brian Friel’s ‘Lovers: Winners‘ and the New York première of The Yalta Game.
Born in Omagh, Co Tyrone, on January 9, 1929, Friel became a teacher, following in his father’s footsteps after his education at St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth and St Joseph’s College in Belfast.Although he wrote throughout his life, it was in 1967 that he became a household name with “Philadelphia,...
The recent National Theatre production of Brian Friel's 'Translations' is a remarkable take on the central — and perennially relevant — questions of place, belonging and dislocation, argues Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
My performance as Father Jack, from Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel. Directed by Aimee Blesing. Performed through University of New Hampshire's Theater De...
Actors Rachel Pickup and John Windsor-Cunningham, and director Charlotte Moore join us to discuss “The Home Place," playing now at the Irish Repertory Thea
Professor Nicholas Grene, in association with the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation, on Brian Friel. Brian Friel, undoubtedly one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights, is celebrated for his ability, through drama, to interrogate identity and the circumstances, such as language and history that create it and define its limits. In honour of the late Friel (9 […]
Molly Sweeney can identify several varieties of flowers from the scent and touch. She is a championship swimmer who elegantly describes how slicing through the water, of a pool or the Atlantic Ocean, makes her feel.
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