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Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa had a long run on Broadway
Three Irish plays will be among the contenders at tomorrow's Tony awards, when Broadway honours productions from the past year. Brian Friel's Faith Healer, Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Conor McPherson's Shining City have a total of 11 nominations in seven categories.
Choices made by previous taoisigh have included the playwright Brian Friel, distinguished public servants such as TK Whitaker and Maurice Hayes, and prominent Northern Ireland figures such as John Robb, Seamus Mallon, Bríd Rodgers and the late Gordon Wilson
Brian Friel, who wrote Translations and Philadelphia ... Here I Come, and who is regarded by many as one of the world's greatest living playwrights, has suggested that there is, in fact, no real need for a director on a production.
ALL the pieces are falling into place for Brian Friel's new play, "Faith Healer," which opens 5 April on Broadway.
Brian Friel has been recognized as Northern Ireland's greatest living playwright almost since the first production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in Dublin in 1964. In succeeding years he has dazzled us with plays that speak in a language of unequaled poetic beauty and intensity. Such dramas as "Translations," "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "Wonderful Tennessee," among others, have given him a privileged place in our theater.
FOR THOSE OF US who never quite understood why Brian Friel is called "the Irish Chekhov," here is "Aristocrats" to explain – if not actually justify – the compliment."
Final curtains fall Sunday on three Broadway shows: Brian Friel's Translations at the Biltmore; The Apple Tree, with Kristin Chenoweth, at Studio 54; David Hare's The Vertical Hour, with Julienne Moore and Bill Nighy, at the Music Box, the latter directed by Sam Mendes
But if it fuses warmth, humour and melancholy as seamlessly as it should, it will make a worthy birthday gift for Friel, who has just turned 80, and justify his status as one of Ireland's seven Saoi of the Aosdána, meaning that he can wear the Golden Torc round his neck and is now officially what we fans know him to be: a Wise Man of the People of Art and, maybe, the greatest living English-language dramatist.(subscription required).
FOR THOSE OF US who never quite understood why Brian Friel is called "the Irish Chekhov," here is "Aristocrats" to explain – if not actually justify – the compliment."
Final curtains fall Sunday on three Broadway shows: Brian Friel's Translations at the Biltmore; The Apple Tree, with Kristin Chenoweth, at Studio 54; David Hare's The Vertical Hour, with Julienne Moore and Bill Nighy, at the Music Box, the latter directed by Sam Mendes
