Brian Friel

...including Patrick Magee, Jimmy Ellis, Stephen Boyd and Colin Blakely, as well as new Irish writers such as Joseph Tomelty and Brian Friel, whose plays were presented alongside modern classics by Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Rattigan. At the...

In this article: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Magee, London, and Joseph Tomelty

...more than two decades. Dowling makes his American acting debut as the title character -- an itinerant Irish miracle-worker -- in Brian Friel's "Faith Healer." Dowling, the longtime head of the Guthrie, a Tony-winning regional theater, is...

In this article: Joe Dowling, Faith Healer, Tyrone Guthrie, Mark Lamos, The Importance of Being Earnest, Philadelphia, Here I Come, and Donal McCann

...the history of Brian Friel are intertwined. "The Abbey couldn't call itself the national theatre without Brian Friel. Every decade since Brian started writing, his plays have been in the Abbey," he said. Notoriously shy, Friel has found...

In this article: Sinead Cusack, Ciaran Hinds, Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations, Tom Kilroy, Rosaleen Linehan, and Seamus Heaney

In a tribute to the playwright, Gate Director Michael Colgan said that the gathering was an opportunity to thank Brian Friel for the gifts he had bestowed on the nation through his writing. "My children and my great-grandchildren will be...

In this article: Champagne, Edinburgh, Dublin, Faith Healer, Ulster Bank, and Tom Kilroy

...of people throughout the world, yet yesterday the man himself was quite simply at a loss for words. World-renowned playwright Brian Friel's repertoire of masterpieces may frequently take centre-stage but it is not a position the elder...

In this article: Dublin, Dancing at Lughnasa, Ireland, Philadelphia, Here I Come, Faith Healer, Translations, St Columb's College, and John B Keane

Brian Friel, a playwright who has translated Chekhov, here spins his own stories around Chekhov characters. Afterplay and The Yalta Game are short, intimate two-handers. In both cases, the onstage action isn't the whole story. Together...

In this article: Yalta, Edinburgh, Uncle Vanya, Patrick Mason, Faith Healer, and Three Sisters

The Yalta Game and Afterplay at the Edinburgh Festival, review A double helping of Chekhov-inspired plays by Brian Friel stay true to the spirit of the Russian T Rating: The Yalta Game: * * *; Afterplay: * * * * The great Irish...

In this article: Uncle Vanya, Moscow, Stoicism, Patrick Mason, and Faith Healer

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Brian Friel's Faith Healer at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh Is there a contemporary dramatist who combines warmth, humour, melancholy and a sense of spiritual strangeness quite like the...

In this article: Faith Healer, Edinburgh, Donal McCann, and Anxiety

...Subscription with the Scotland On Sunday site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Interview: Brian Friel - Keeper of the faith Published Date: 09 August 2009 By Mark Fisher AS BRIAN Friel sees it,...

In this article: Faith Healer, Patrick Mason, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, Ireland, Molly Sweeney, Lughnasa, and The Age newspaper

...is the opposite. Murphy writes on huge, epic, mythological themes, whereas with Friel the centre of gravity remains almost constant. " Brian Friel Patrick Mason, former artistic director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, directed the first...

In this article: Fintan O'Toole, Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations, Ireland, Ballybeg, Ideology, and Patrick Mason