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    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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  • White, Mick Taylor, Spencer Davis, Vivian Stanshall, Geno Washington, Brian Friel, Hard Travelers, Widowmaker, Georgie Fame and Alan Price. He was later...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Ballybeg (fictional town) (category Works by Brian Friel)
    is a fictional town in which Irish playwright Brian Friel set many of his works. Several of Friel's plays, including Philadelphia Here I Come!, Translations...
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    Molly Sweeney (category Plays by Brian Friel)
    Molly Sweeney is a two-act play by Brian Friel. It tells the story of its title character, Molly, a woman blind since infancy who undergoes an operation...
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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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  • 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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  • Music Box Theatre, New York 2001 The Yalta Game Gurov Anton Chekhov, Brian Friel Karel Reisz Gate Theatre, Dublin 2007 The Seafarer Mr. Lockhart Conor...
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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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    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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  • (subscription required) Christopher Murray (24 April 2014). The Theatre of Brian Friel: Tradition and Modernity. A&C Black. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-1-4081-5451-9...
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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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    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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    include poets Eavan Boland and Patrick Kavanagh, dramatists Tom Murphy and Brian Friel, and novelists Edna O'Brien and John McGahern. In the late twentieth...
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