Brian Friel (1929–2015)
Forfatter af Translations
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Image credit: Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Værker af Brian Friel
Brian Friel: Plays 3: Three Sisters; a Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; the Yalta Game; the Bear; Afterplay;… (2014) 6 eksemplarer
Translations [theatre programme] 1 eksemplar
Théâtre 1 eksemplar
Translations (Playbill) [Vol 95 No 4] 1 eksemplar
2 Plays: Crystal and Fox, The Mundy Scheme 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Argosy: December 1964 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Friel, Bernard Patrick
- Fødselsdato
- 1929-01-09
- Dødsdag
- 2015-10-02
- Begravelsessted
- Glenties, Ireland
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Ireland
- Fødested
- Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
- Dødssted
- County Donegal, Ireland
- Bopæl
- Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
Donegal, Ireland - Uddannelse
- St Columb's College
- Erhverv
- playwright
teacher
politician - Organisationer
- Seanad Éireann
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Aosdána (Saoi)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1996)
Irish Academy of Letters
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Faith Healer (Faber Drama) af 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.
Lister
Hæderspriser
Måske også interessante?
Associated Authors
Statistikker
- Værker
- 50
- Also by
- 10
- Medlemmer
- 2,559
- Popularitet
- #10,035
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 31
- ISBN
- 151
- Sprog
- 4
- Udvalgt
- 7