Brian Friel
Birth date: February 09, 1929
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bookshelves: britain-ireland, autumn-2010, play-dramatisation, published-1979, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy Recommended for: Radio 3 listeners Read on September 13, 2010 BBC blurb - A magisterial study of the torments of creative genius and the healing power of love. In one of the great classic play...
Made for 4 Extra. An outsider in Beannagreaghan instigates a poaching contest to ingratiate himself with town locals. Read by Adrian Dunbar.Wonderful selection, and finely read.4* Translations4* Dancing at Lughnasa3* Faith Healer4* Selected Stories
Ah......this is a nice, tightly-written play, but it's a tiny bit touchy-feely, with all the dancing and all. I get it as a play, but it's not my thing, man.
BBC blurb - A magisterial study of the torments of creative genius and the healing power of love. In one of the great classic plays in the modern Irish canon, a faith healer returns to his native Ireland to a potentially terrible fate. When fortune smiles, Frances Hardy's gifts are prodigious. Other...
Wonderful play about the power of language in every sphere. Beautifully imagined, wonderful characters fleshed out and realistic.
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