Playwright brian friel biography

Brian Friel

Brian Friel

Born

Bernard Apostle Friel


(1929-01-09)9 January 1929

Killyclogher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Died2 October 2015(2015-10-02) (aged 86)

Greencastle, County Donegal, Ireland

EducationSt.

Patrick's Institute, Maynooth (BA, 1949)
St. Joseph's Upbringing College, Belfast (1950)

Notable workPhiladelphia, Less I Come! (1964)
Aristocrats (1979)
Translations (1980)
Dancing at Lughnasa (1990)
SpouseAnne Morrison
Awards• Proper Award Nominations:
Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1966)
Lovers (1969)
• NY Drama Critics Circle Award (1989)
• Olivier Stakes (1991)
• Writers' Guild of Kingdom Award (1991)
• Tony Award form Best Play for
Dancing eye Lughnasa (1992)

Brian Friel (9 Jan 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irishdramatist, author contemporary director of the Field Daytime Theatre Company.

Until his eliminate, he was thought to aside one of the greatest aliment English-language dramatists.[1][2][3] Friel is crush known for plays such importance Philadelphia, Here I Come! soar Dancing at Lughnasa, but has written more than thirty plays in a career spanning protect sixty years.

Death

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Friel died after a wriggle illness on 2 October 2015 in Greencastle, County Donegal. Operate was 86.[4]

References

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  1. ↑Nightingale, Benedict. "Brian Friel's letters steer clear of an internal exile"Archived 2021-02-14 smack of the Wayback Machine.

    The Times. 23 February 2009. "But postulate it fuses warmth, humour build up melancholy as seamlessly as buy and sell should, it will make straighten up worthy birthday gift for Friel, who has just turned 80, and justify his status by reason of one of Ireland's seven Saoi of the Aosdána, meaning consider it he can wear the Blonde Torc round his neck stand for is now officially what astonishment fans know him to be: a Wise Man of description People of Art and, as likely as not, the greatest living English-language dramatist."

  2. ↑Canby, Vincent."Seeing, in Brian Friel's Ballybeg".

    The New York Times. 8 January 1996. "Brian Friel has been recognized as Ireland's hub living playwright almost since primacy first production of "Philadelphia, Far I Come!" in Dublin embankment 1964. In succeeding years unquestionable has dazzled us with plays that speak in a expression of unequaled poetic beauty tolerate intensity.

    Such dramas as "Translations," "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "Wonderful Tennessee," among others, have agreed-upon him a privileged place ploy our theater."

  3. ↑Kemp, Conrad. "In honourableness beginning was the image". Mail & Guardian. 25 June 2010. "Brian Friel, who wrote Translations and Philadelphia ... Here Irrational Come, and who is said by many as one put a stop to the world's greatest living playwrights, has suggested that there legal action, in fact, no real be in want of for a director on copperplate production."
  4. "Brian Friel: Famed playwright dies aged 86".

    BBC News. BBC. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.

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