Brian Friel

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

★★★☆☆     Affecting

Even as other companies gear up for Christmas, Leitheatre look back to September with Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa at the Church Hill. This entirely unseasonal downbeat piece is discharged with great care and some impressive acting.

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Translations

Translations

★★★★☆ Clear

Edinburgh University Theatre Company bring a welcome clarity to Translations, at the Bedlam to Saturday, in a production which gets inside the many shades of meaning to Brian Friel’s script.

Mar 4 2023 | By | Reply More
Lovers

Lovers

★★★☆☆ Emotive:
There’s a truth and vulnerability to Leitheatre’s take on Brian Friel’s early pair of conjoined plays, Lovers: Winners and Losers, at the Church Hill to Saturday.

Nov 21 2015 | By | Reply More
Church Hill Lovers

Church Hill Lovers

Friel’s Lovers for Leitheatre:
Fans of the late great Irish playwright Brian Friel should be in for a treat this week as Leitheatre revive one of his early plays, Lovers, at the Church Hill Theatre.

Nov 15 2015 | By | Reply More
Faith Healer

Faith Healer

✭✭✭✭✩ Truth or lies?:
There is an evasive, poetic feel to Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, running at the Lyceum until Saturday February 7, 2015.

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Lyceum season 2014-15 launched

Lyceum season 2014-15 launched

The Royal Lyceum’s 2014/15 season has been announced, with a pair of world premieres bookending a programme otherwise packed with classic theatre.

May 19 2014 | By | Reply More
Review – Translations

Review – Translations

Timing is all. And Translations, Brian Friel’s play about a hedge school in County Donegal in 1833, gathers an extra layer of resonance as it arrives at the King’s for a week long run.

Apr 16 2013 | By | Reply More