Faith Healer” is Brian Friel’s haunting tale of the charismatic Frank Hardy, his wife — or not — Grace, and his manager Teddy ...

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Plays by the legendary Irish playwright Brian Friel, often hailed as an 'Irish Chekhov,' are heading back to their roots in a landmark cross-border project, The Guardian writes. The five-year ...

Friel aimed to present a nuanced portrayal of ... to unpack our country’s complicated and painful history through art, to examine who we want to be moving forward. I think this production ...

Making History at the Everyman delves into the life of chieftain Hugh O'Neill on either side of the Battle of Kinsale ...

Sincerely yours, Brian Friel.’ I realised by the date that this ... and he eventually became a mentor as Friel worked on learning the art of playwriting. I have long been a fan of Friel ...

in Making History is an astute observation by the theatre’s new artistic director, Des Kennedy, but a bigger swing is being played here: can something be made of Brian Friel’s 1988 play ...

Brian Friel’s play Making History centres on Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone and leader of Irish resistance to the English crown in the tumultuous era of Elizabethan colonisation and the ...