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Translations

The Friel Project

IA Newsletter, December 2, 2023

November 30, 2023 by Leave a Comment

The Irish Repertory Theatre's 35th Season Celebration Running through May 5, 2024 The Irish Repertory Theatre is celebrating its 35th season by presenting three plays by Brian Friel, Translations, Aristocrats, and Philadelphia, Here I Come! running through May 5, 2024. Brian Friel was a dramatist and writer often referred to as the ‘Irish Chekhov’ for his plays … [Read more...] about The Friel Project

Translations

By Mary Pat Kelly

March/April 1995

March 24, 1995 by Leave a Comment

A behind the scenes take on Translations, the Brien Friel play, ahead of its 1995 Broadway opening, and a trip to the Boston preview. In the bare rehearsal room a few chairs and a desk represented the hedge school of Brian Friel's Translations. Brian Dennehy as Master Hugh O'Donnell entered not from the wings but from a card table where he had been drinking coffee and … [Read more...] about Translations

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