Brian Friel

Brian Friel (født 9. januar 1929 i  Killyclogher nær Omagh i Nord-Irland, død 2. oktober 2015 i Greencastle i County Donegal i Irland) var en irsk dramatiker, oversetter og teaterinstruktør, som i løpet av en lang skrivende karriere fikk ry på seg som en av sin tids ledende irske dramatikere.Nightingale, Benedict. "Brian Friel's letters from an internal exile" . The Times. 23 February 2009. "But if it fuses warmth, humour and melancholy as seamlessly as it should, it will make a worthy birthday gift for Friel, who has just turned 80, and justify his status as one of Ireland's seven Saoi of the Aosdána, meaning that he can wear the Golden Torc round his neck and is now officially what we fans know him to be: a Wise Man of the People of Art and, maybe, the greatest living English-language dramatist."Canby, Vincent."Seeing, in Brian Friel's Ballybeg". The New York Times. 8 January 1996. "Brian Friel has been recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright almost since the first production of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in Dublin in 1964. In succeeding years he has dazzled us with plays that speak in a language of unequaled poetic beauty and intensity. Such dramas as "Translations," "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "Wonderful Tennessee," among others, have given him a privileged place in our theater."Kemp, Conrad. "In the beginning was the image". Mail & Guardian. 25 June 2010. "Brian Friel, who wrote Translations and Philadelphia ... Here I Come, and who is regarded by many as one of the world's greatest living playwrights, has suggested that there is, in fact, no real need for a director on a production."

 Verker, adaptasjoner 
 1958: This Doubtful Paradise
 1962: The Enemy Within
 1964: Philadelphia Here I Come! 
 1967: Lovers
 1968: Crystal and Fox
 1973: The Freedom of the City
 1975: Volunteers
 1977: Living Quarters
 1979: Aristocrats
 1980: Faith Healer 
 1980: Translations 
 1981: Three Sisters,adapsjon av Anton Pavlovitsj Tsjekhov
 1982: The Communication Cord 
 1989: Making History
 1990: Dancing at Lughnasa 
 1992: A Month in the Country, adaptsjon, Ivan Sergejevitsj Turgenev
 1993: Wonderful Tennessee
 1995: Molly Sweeney
 1997: Give Me Your Answer, Do!
 1998: Uncle Vanya, adapsjon, Tsjekhov
 2001: The Yalta Game, adapsjon, Tsjekhov
 2002: The Bear, adapsjon, Tsjekhov
 2003: Performances
 2005: The Home Place
 2008: Hedda Gabler, adaptasjon, Henrik Ibsen

 Referanser 

 Litteratur 
 Tony Coult: About Friel: the Playwright and the Work. Faber & Faber, London 2003, ISBN 0-571-20164-4
 Jochen Achilles: “Philadelphia, here I come!” In: Martha Kleinhans, Klaus Stierstorfer (Hrsg.): Lektüren für das 21. Jahrhundert. Schlüsseltexte europäischer Literatur: England, Frankreich, Irland, Italien, Portugal, Russland. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1944-X, S. 1–26.
 Jochen Achilles, Rüdiger Imhof: Achilles’ Art. In: Jochen Achilles, Rüdiger Imhof (Hrsg.): Irische Dramatiker der Gegenwart. WBG, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12656-4, S. 38–55
 Geraldine Higgins: Brian Friel. Northcote House, Tavistock 2010, ISBN 978-0-7463-1130-1
 Walter T. Rix: Reflexionen des Nordirlandkonfliks: Das irische Drama als Forum des Zeitgeschehens (Brian Friel: The Freedom of the City. 1974). In: Horst Groene, Berthold Schik (Hrsg.): Das moderne Drama im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II, Grundlegungen, Interpretationen, Kursprojekte. Scriptor Verlag, Königstein/Ts. 1980, ISBN 3-589-20743-4, s. 77–98

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