Comments on: Translations, Brian Friel

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The best linguistics link I have ever linked: A links round-up - Reading the End — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:04:19 +0000

[…] Friel, author of Translations and numerous other plays, and virtually the only Irish author I’ve ever loved, has […]

By: Review: Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay | Jenny's Books

Review: Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay | Jenny's Books — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:00:48 +0000

[…] Good: I love this premise. Guy Gavriel Kay was inspired by Brian Friel’s excellent play Translations, which made him think about the links between language and memory and the existence of what is […]

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:05:51 +0000

If I were near NYC, I’d be going to off-broadway shows like O’Neill’s Moon for the Misbegotten, Hwang’s Chinglish, Kaufman’s One-Arm (based on an unproduced Tn Wms play), Ruhl’s Orlando* or Kushner’s The Illusion or The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…

On Broadway, I’d be at The Importance of Being Earnest!!!! Also The House of Blue Leaves and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

You missed your chance at The Scottsboro Boys, I think.

*Sarah Ruhl is a great translator/playwrite and I’d pick her Orlando over the others if I had to make a choice.

By: litlove

litlove — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:16:45 +0000

I must admit I read very few plays and very little Irish writing, but it’s fine for you to claim ancestry from there or indeed any part of the British Isles. I’m cool about that! I think the plays I have read for pleasure have mostly been by Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde, but you’ll know all about them! Oh and I like Sartre’s plays, too – it was his best genre, I think.

By: Nymeth

Nymeth — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:24:47 +0000

I read this for my Irish Drama class a few years ago (which I really, really miss) and also enjoyed it a lot. Have you read any Martin McDonagh? I read him for that same class and I remember much awesomeness.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sun, 08 May 2011 00:11:37 +0000

My husband, an Irish Piper, played for a production of Translations at a local theatre–Dido’s Lament was the bit of music that sticks most clearly in my mind.

I saw it several times, and it did not grow less moving.

By: Katy

Katy — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:28:07 +0000

This isn’t by a woman or a person of color, but I love Shaw’s play Saint Joan. It’s kind of like Arcadia in that you expect it to just be clever because that’s what the author is known for, and then it turns out to be hearfelt and moving as well as clever.

By: She

She — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:12:57 +0000

Ireland/Germany/enter name of country is totally capitalizing on the fact that Americans have such strong ‘identities’ — They host heritage tours that cost buku bucks. I suppose those folks can’t hate us distant relations too much. ;p

By: Christy

Christy — Sat, 07 May 2011 02:38:15 +0000

My college performed this play when I was a freshman and because they were performing it, my Introduction to English Studies professor also assigned it for our class. I remember liking both the play and performance. One of the main cast members is now a playwright herself. I don’t read many plays though. I never really cared for reading Shakespeare for example but I’ve enjoyed seeing Shakespeare performed. Have you seen the show “Slings and Arrows”? It’s a fantastic Canadian show about a troupe of actors in a Shakespearean theater company.

By: anna

anna — Sat, 07 May 2011 00:25:31 +0000

heheh, they are very different, the two families. Very, very, very different.