num_pages: 86
description: Aristocrats, first produced by the Abbey Theatre in 1979, won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play (1988) and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1989).Set in Ballybeg Hall in Country Donegal, the decaying home of District Justice O'Donnell, where those who congregate for a wedding stay to attend a funeral, Brian Friel's chronicle of three sisters and their 'peculiar' brother reveals the way 'in which the ache of one family becomes the microcosm for the ache of a society'.
language: English
title: Aristocrats
titlecomplete: Aristocrats
genres: Theatre, Drama, Plays, Irish Literature
ratings_count: 86
publisher: Dufour Editions