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...There are echoes of Chekhov, Tennessee Williams and Lorca, but it also bears Friel’s own unmistakable mix of mischief, depth and sense of place....
...Questions of permanence and impermanence snake through the play: in common with Brian Friel’s great Translations, it touches on colonisation, the fragility of even the grandest civilisations and the impact...
...From the lean narratives of Law and Order and the dancing babies of Ally McBeal to an off-the-leash William Shatner in Boston Legal, US television networks have left few avenues unexplored in the world of...
...Caryl Churchill’s recent quartet of mini-plays at the Royal Court explored similar territory, as does Ian Rickson’s haunting revival of Translations by Brian Friel (at the National Theatre)....
...Driven by zippy, often witty, songs from Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers, and with a sprightly text from Mark Ravenhill, it homes in on one 12-year-old boy’s struggle with his identity....
...The same ex-soldier, now a pensioner, was also charged with the alleged attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O’Donnell....
...William Hederman, a campaigner who set up the Irish Oil and Gas blog, said Ireland’s fiscal regime was one of the most generous in Europe due to low tax rates and other related incentives....
...Well, there’s no Audrey Hepburn, but there is Anna Friel, in an array of lovely outfits and at one point nothing at all....
...Friel and Duboff note: “It is hard to imagine a richer source of information and advice for a new CEO, even on a purely personal level.” Other departing executives prefer a clean break....
...It does not disappoint here, even though Chandler Williams, throughout most of the evening, imbues the officer’s love of Hibernia with a dewy-eyed ecstasy that might embarrass even the Irish Tourist Board...
...The play’s director, William Gaskill, said that when Stephens as George was given a typewriter in the last act as a birthday present, it was clear - even without any words - that the character would never...
...This month, the Apple Tree staged the Brian Friel adaptation of Uncle Vanya....
...By coincidence, three great American plays, two by Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Natasha Richardson and John C....
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