Brian Friel wrote Irish drama about language, memory, family and the political pressures carried inside ordinary conversation. Translations is set in nineteenth-century County Donegal as British surveyors anglicise Irish place names, turning translation, education and mapping into a drama about culture and power. Dancing at Lughnasa looks back on five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 through the memory of a child who only partly understands their tensions and losses. Philadelphia, Here I Come! splits the emigrating Gar into public and private selves on the night before he leaves for America. Friel's dialogue is precise, funny and often quietly painful, with what characters cannot say as important as what they voice. His work fits modern Irish drama, memory plays and theatre about language, migration and family. Read more Less
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