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This book is dedicated to:
Sue Colgrave, Jonathan Martin, Annie Tyson
The Rose Bruford Three.
There are few theatre books which allow direct access to the playwright or to those whose business it is to translate the script into performance. These volumes aim to deal directly with the writer and with other theatre workers (directors, actors, designers and similar figures) who realize in performance the words on the page.
The subjects of the series are some of the most important and influential writers from post-war British and Irish theatre. Each volume contains an introduction which sets the work of the writer in the relevant historical, social and political context, followed by a digest of interviews and other material which allows the writer, in his own words, to trace his evolution as a dramatist. Some of this material is new, as is, in large part, the material especially gathered from the writers collaborators and fellow theatre workers. The volumes conclude with annotated bibliographies. In all, we hope the books will provide a wealth of information in accessible form, and real insight into some of the major dramatists of our day.
| 1950 | Brian Friel begins writing short stories. |
| 1958 | First radio plays produced by BBC Belfast. |
| 1959 | Regular contributor to The New Yorker. |
| A Doubtful Paradise, first stage-play, at the Ulster Group Theatre, Belfast. | |
| 1962 | The Enemy Within, Abbey Theatre (then at the Queens), Dublin. |
| First collection of short stories, The Saucer of Larks. | |
| 1963 | Spends six months with Tyrone Guthrie at the new Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. |
| 1964 | Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin; Helen Hayes Theater, New York, 1965; Lyric Theatre, London, 1967. |
| 1966 | Second collection of short stories, The Gold in the Sea. |
| The Loves of Cass McGuire, Helen Hayes Theater, New York; Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1967. | |
| 1967 | Lovers, Gate Theatre, Dublin; Lincoln Center, New York, 1968; Fortune Theatre, London, 1968. |
| 1968 | Crystal and Fox, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin; Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles. |
| 1969 | The Mundy Scheme, Olympia Theatre, Dublin; Royale Theater, New York. |
| 1971 | The Gentle Island, Olympia Theatre, Dublin; Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 1989. |
| 1973 | The Freedom of the City, Royal Court Theatre, London; Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Alvin Theater, New York, 1974. |
| 1975 | Volunteers, Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| 1977 | Living Quarters, Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| 1979 | Aristocrats, Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1988; Manhattan Theater Club, New York; Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| Faith Healer, Longacre Theater, New York; Abbey Theater, Dublin, 1980; Royal Court Theatre, London, 1981. | |
| 1980 | Co-founder of Field Day Theatre Company. |
| Translations opens in Derry; Hampstead Theatre and the National Theatre, London, 1981; Manhattan Theater Club, New York, 1981. | |
| 1981 | His translation of Chekhovs Three Sisters opens in Derry; Chichester, 2000. |
| Ewart-Biggs Prize. | |
| American-Irish Foundation Literary Award. | |
| 1982 | The Communication Cord opens in Derry; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1983. |
| 1983 | Doctor of Letters, National University of Ireland. |
| 1986 | Editor of The Last of the Name. |
| 1987 | Adaptation of Turgenevs novel Fathers and Sons, Royal National Theatre, London; Long Wharf Theater, USA; Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1988. |
| 1988 | Making History opens in Derry; Royal National Theatre, London; Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. |
| Doctor of Letters, University of Ulster. | |
| 1989 | BBC Radio devotes a six-play season to Friel. |
| Sunday Independent / Irish Life Arts Award for Theatre. | |
| 1990 | Dancing at Lughnasa, Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Royal National Theatre, London. |
| 1991 | Dancing at Lughnasa, Phoenix Theatre, London, and Plymouth Theater, New York, wins Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress. |
| 1992 | A Month in the Country, Gate Theatre, Dublin. |
| 1993 | Wonderful Tennessee, Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Plymouth Theatre, New York. |
| Dancing at Lughnasa, Abbey Theatre national tour, Australian tour. | |
| 1994 | Molly Sweeney, Gate Theatre, Dublin; Almeida Theatre, London; Roundabout Theater, New York, 1996. |
| 1997 | Give Me Your Answer, Do!, Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| 1998 | Give Me Your Answer, Do!, Hampstead Theatre, London; Roundabout Theater, New York, 1996. |
| Friels version of Chekhovs Uncle Vanya, Gate Theatre, Dublin; revived Donmar Warehouse, London, 2002; transferred BAM, New York, 2003. | |
| Film of Dancing at Lughnasa, screenplay by Frank McGuinness, is released. | |
| 1999 | Lifetime Achievement Arts Award on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. |
| Friel Festival: including The Freedom of the City and Dancing at Lughnasa at the Abbey Theatre, Living Quarters and Making History at the Peacock Theatre (all National Theatre productions), Aristocrats at the Gate Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Companys production of A Month in the Country at the Gaiety Theatre and Lovers, Winners and Losers at Andrews Lane Theatre, all in Dublin; and Give Me Your Answer, Do! at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Other events included Brian Friel A Celebration at the National Library, Dublin, an exhibition of letters, playscripts, photographs and posters presented by the National Theatre Literary Department and Archive in association with the National Library of Ireland. | |
| 2002 | Two Plays After (The Bear and Afterplay), Gate Theatre, Dublin; The Yalta Game (as part of Three Plays), Gate Theatre, Dublin. Afterplay, Gielgud Theatre, London. |
Dancing with Brian Friel! by Paul Durcan
To Brian Friel on his 70th birthday
Dancing with Brian Friel!
Who lives in that part of the South of Ireland
Which is more northerly than the North;
Who lives far away up in the South
In the South thats far north of the North;
In County Donegal;
On the Inishowen Peninsula;
Who knows every millimetre of the road between Muff and Aught:
The North Road to the deep South
By Brian Friel
Life begins at seventy!
The all-clear of death
Being sounded far out to sea
Beyond Tory and beyond
On a single key of black ivory with one blind young ladys pink little finger.
A writer whose work is as rich in resonances and ideas as Friels justifiably attracts a sometimes daunting scaffolding of critical and academic commentary. This book sets out to distil some of this excellent work into more manageable form. What has been fascinating to me has been how much of the best commentary on Friel has been from other artists actors, directors, poets and playwrights. This may be because Irish culture still retains traces of the old scholar-poet, the bardic Man of Art, who, centuries before Christ, folded together the analytic and the creative.
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