Brian Patrick Friel (c. 9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had...
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Translations (play) (category Plays by Brian Friel)
Irish playwright Brian Friel, written in 1980. It is set in Baile Beag (Ballybeg), a County Donegal village in 19th-century Ireland. Friel has said that...
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in London. He is a co-founder of the Field Day Theatre Company with Brian Friel. In 2020, The Irish Times ranked Rea the 13th greatest Irish film actor...
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Anna Louise Friel (born 12 July 1976) is an English actress. She first achieved fame as Beth Jordache in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1993–1995)...
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Dancing at Lughnasa (category Plays by Brian Friel)
Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in County Donegal, Ireland in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory...
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1998 Irish-British-American period drama film adapted from the 1990 Brian Friel play Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by Pat O'Connor. The film competed...
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the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1992) Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel. Directed by Patrick Mason in London's West End. (1992) Wilse in Smoke...
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Philadelphia, Here I Come! (category Plays by Brian Friel)
1964 play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel. Set in the fictional town of Ballybeg, County Donegal, the play launched Friel onto the international stage...
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The Brian Friel Theatre is a studio theatre located at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was opened in February 2009 and is named after...
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antimimetic philosophy has also influenced later Irish writers, including Brian Friel. Halliwell asserts that the idea that life imitates art derives from...
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for his work in Closer. He was on stage in 2001 in The Yalta Game by Brian Friel at Dublin's Gate Theatre. He appeared on Broadway in The Seafarer by...
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Lulu Raczka Almeida Theatre 2023 Dancing at Lughnasa Chris Josie Rourke Brian Friel National Theatre 2023 Portia Coughlan Portia Coughlan Carrie Cracknell...
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The festival is referenced in the 1990 play Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel, which was adapted into a 1998 film of the same name. Lughnasadh, or...
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In 2009, she played Maggie in the first major revival in London of Brian Friel's multi award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa alongside her husband Finbar...
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Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester); Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (1990) (directed by Patrick Mason at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Momma...
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FitzSimons (1870-1926) - Australian politician who was born in Greencastle. Brian Friel (1929-2015) - Playwright who lived in Greencastle from 1982 until his...
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are the Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney, dramatists Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and the artists Patrick Scott, Louis le Brocquy, Edna...
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Bristol Old Vic, Bristol 1989 Dancing at Lughnasa Agnes Patrick Mason Brian Friel Phoenix and Garrick Theatre, London – – The Master Builder Hilde Paul...
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her film, TV and theatre work. She originated the role of Agnes in the Brian Friel play Dancing at Lughnasa, for which she won the 1992 Tony Award for Best...
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in the Chicago theater world, and made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel's Translations. In 1999, he was the first male performer to be voted the...
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Serbian production premiered at the National Theatre in Belgrade. A 2012 Brian Friel adaptation of the play staged at London's The Old Vic theatre received...
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Arthur O. Friel (1887–1959), writer Benny Friel (1941–2010), Scottish footballer Bill Friel (1876–1959), American baseball player Brian Friel (1929–2015)...
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Retrieved 25 November 2019. Roy, David (7 August 2019). "Robert Glenister on Brian Friel, Hustle and working with brother Philip – one day". The Irish News. Retrieved...
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theatre and film actor. Perhaps best known for his work in the plays of Brian Friel, he had a long and varied career in film, on television and in the theatre...
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on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2011. McGrath, F. C. (1990). "Brian Friel and the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Language". Colby Quarterly. 26 (4):...
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White, Mick Taylor, Spencer Davis, Vivian Stanshall, Geno Washington, Brian Friel, the Hard Travelers, Widowmaker, Georgie Fame and Alan Price. He is also...
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film, and television actor best known for his roles in the works of Brian Friel and for his lead role in John Huston's last film, The Dead (1987). In...
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as Carlos Santini in Season 3, Episode 4 of Derry Girls. Winners by Brian Friel, as Joe; One day in summer in a garden as Uncle Jim, Incredible adventure...
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Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, poet Seamus Deane, playwright Brian Friel, writer and music critic Nik Cohn, artist Willie Doherty, socio-political...
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O'Brien (1966) "You say you'd like a joke or two for a bit of crack." and Brian Friel (1980): "You never saw such crack in your life, boys". Crack was borrowed...
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