Translations is his masterpiece. To be sure, he had imperialistic wars in mind when he wrote the play in 1980, during what the Irish call “the troubles.” The war with the British occupiers (or ...

Woven throughout Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations is the profound matter of language itself. But the viewer’s experience of the production is more likely to focus on the 10 characters whose hopes ...

Life in County Donegal, Ireland proceeds much the same in 1833 as it’s always done. Irish-speaking young people gather at the local hedge school where the long-time and long-winded schoolmaster ...

Raffi Barsoumian and Mary Wiseman in Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Translations. Carol Rosegg Helpful production notes inform the audience that “the Irish characters in Translations speak ...

Ian Rickson’s 2018 staging of Brian Friel's modern classic about language and nationhood enjoys a speedy return to the National, again led by Ciarán Hinds By Demetrios Matheou Irish dramatist Brian ...

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Brian Friel’s Translations reveals masterful breadth and depth with intertwining themes of cultural identity and language, place and belonging, encircling a pair of unlikely lovers and their new-found ...

From L: Jonathan Weir, Kevin Gudahl, and Casey Hoekstra in Translations at Writers Theatre Credit: Michael Brosilow Irish dramatist Brian Friel set much of his work in the fictional Donegal town of ...

Celebrated Irish playwright Brian Friel made the subject of his play “Translations” quite clear. He said his play “has to do with language and only language,” an issue he described in a 1982 interview ...

Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting Translations, the first production in The Friel Project, a retrospective of the work of renowned Irish playwright Brian Friel, celebrating Irish Rep’s 35th ...

Since 1988 Irish Repertory Theatre has been devoted to bringing Irish and Irish-American works to the stage. Presenting classic and contemporary works, they are devoted to nurturing generations of ...