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  • Brian Friel Plays 2

    Dancing at Lughnasa; Fathers and Sons; Making History; Wonderful Tennessee; Molly Sweeney

    by Brian Friel ...
    This second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney. The collection is introduced by Christopher Murray. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Translations

    by Brian Friel ...
    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 place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Brian Friel Plays 1

    Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations

    by Brian Friel ...
    With the production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964, Brian Friel established his claim to be the true heir of such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey and Beckett. Since then his work has consistently demonstrated that his strength is an equal awareness of the conditions of individual lives and the historical and political forces affecting them. The plays in this first volume ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Philadelphia, Here I Come

    by Brian Friel ...
    Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O'Donnell has accepted his aunt's invitation to come to Philadelphia. Now, on the eve of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Dancing at Lughnasa

    by Brian Friel ...
    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 superiors after 25 years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Faith Healer

    by Brian Friel ...
    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 work of art. ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Home Place

    by Brian Friel ...
    The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybeg. But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher's English cousin, who unwittingly ignites deep animosity among the villagers of Ballybeg.The Home Place ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Brian Friel: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    Translations, Faith Healer & More

    by Brian Friel ...
    Narrated by Adrian Dunbar, Samuel Barnett, Dermot Crowley, Phil Daniels, Lia Williams, Mark Bazeley, Full Cast, Aiofe McMahon ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    Dramatisations and short stories by the award-winning playwright - plus bonus programmesKnown as the 'Irish Chekhov', Brian Friel was one of the most renowned dramatists of his generation, producing over 30 plays in a career spanning six decades. Included here are some of his best-known works, as well as mesmerising radio documentaries featuring the author himself, in his own words.Beginning with ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

  • 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 ...
    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 Leos Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen's Hedda ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Nga Whakamaoritanga

    Translated by Hemi Kelly ...
    by Brian Friel ...
    A powerful translation exploring language, identity, and cultural collision in 19th century Ireland.Set in a hedge-school in Baile Beag, County Donegal, in 1833, this play delves into the complexities of language and cultural identity. As the Royal Engineers undertake the first Ordnance Survey, mapping Irish place names into English, the community grapples with the impact of this seemingly benign ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Performances

    by Brian Friel ...
    This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janácek, the passion he felt for a married woman nearly forty years his junior, and his final surge of creative energy.Performances premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2003. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Making History

    by Brian Friel ...
    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 at home in Dungannon, as a fugitive in the mountains, and finally exiled in Rome. In his handling ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD