Brian Friel (1929–2015)
Auteur de Translations
A propos de l'auteur
Brian Friel was born Bernard Patrick Friel on January 9, 1929 in Killyclogher, Northern Ireland. He graduated from St. Patrick's College. He spent a decade teaching mathematics in Londonderry after deciding that he did not want to become a priest. He gained confidence as a writer when his short afficher plus stories began to be published in The New Yorker. He has published several volumes of short stories including A Saucer of Larks, The Gold in the Sea, and Give Me Your Answer, Do! However, he was better known for writing plays. His plays include Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney, The Home Place, Translations, and Wonderful Tennessee. Aristocrats won Best Foreign Play Award from the New York Drama Critics Circle and Dancing at Lughnasa won a Tony Award for best play in 1992. He also translated several plays written by Anton Chekhov and Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. He died on October 2, 2015 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Brian Friel
Brian Friel: Plays 3: Three Sisters; a Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; the Yalta Game; the Bear; Afterplay;… (2014) 6 exemplaires
Translations [theatre programme] 1 exemplaire
Théâtre 1 exemplaire
Translations (Playbill) [Vol 95 No 4] 1 exemplaire
2 Plays: Crystal and Fox, The Mundy Scheme 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Argosy: December 1964 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Friel, Bernard Patrick
- Date de naissance
- 1929-01-09
- Date de décès
- 2015-10-02
- Lieu de sépulture
- Glenties, Ireland
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland
- Lieu de naissance
- Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- County Donegal, Ireland
- Lieux de résidence
- Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
Donegal, Ireland - Études
- St Columb's College
- Professions
- playwright
teacher
politician - Organisations
- Seanad Éireann
- Prix et distinctions
- Aosdána (Saoi)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1996)
Irish Academy of Letters
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Critiques
Faith Healer (Faber Drama) par Brian Friel
A masterful, heart-wrenching depiction of memory and trauma. Adding this so I remember to read the script now that I've watched it—there's no way a single viewing was enough to catch all the nuances.
Surprisingly easy to read as a - Play. I nearly didn’t, thinking it wouldn’t flow, but it did and I quickly got used to reading directions and narration as one. Lovely story of five unwed Irish sisters living together on a shoestring in Ballybeg. They have all the usual struggles of not having enough money yet kept themselves happy with an unreliable, battery radio and their love of music.
Read for my OU course.
I would be interested to see this performed in the theatre, although all the music/dancing might become a bit tiresome.
I would be interested to see this performed in the theatre, although all the music/dancing might become a bit tiresome.
I enjoyed it overall, but I think I liked the film better. Felt weird to read the climactic scene of the film in the first half of the play. Father Jack comes out better in this, at least. I appreciated the narrowed focus of scenery and how storytelling played a crucial role in moving along the plot. The narration threw me off, though.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 50
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 2,559
- Popularité
- #10,035
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 31
- ISBN
- 151
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 7