Brian Friel: Plays 3
Three Sisters; a Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; the Yalta Game; the Bear; Afterplay; Performances; the Home Place; Hedda Gabler
Erschienen am 4. Februar 2014
736 Seiten
978-0-571-30987-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janacek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and of Turgenev's A Month in the Country.
Performances
'A minor work the way Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or Beckett's Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.' Sunday Times
The Home Place
'A rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friel's masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.' Guardian
Hedda Gabler
'Across the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a 'new version', but something altogether larger.' The Irish Times
Performances
'A minor work the way Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or Beckett's Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.' Sunday Times
The Home Place
'A rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friel's masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.' Guardian
Hedda Gabler
'Across the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a 'new version', but something altogether larger.' The Irish Times
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Main
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
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1,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-30987-0 (9780571309870)
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Brian Friel
Brian Friel: Plays 3
Three Sisters; A Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay; Performances; The Home Place; Hedda Gabler
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02/2014
Faber & Faber
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Person
Brian Friel (9 January 1929 - 2 October 2015) wrote thirty plays across six decades and is widely regarded as one
of Ireland's greatest dramatists. He was a member of Aosdana, the society of Irish artists, the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, the Irish Academy of Letters, and the Royal Society of Literature where he was made
a Companion of Literature. He was awarded the Ulysses Medal by University College, Dublin.
Plays include Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen), The Home Place, Performances, Three Plays After (Afterplay, The Bear,
The Yalta Game), Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov), Give Me Your Answer Do!, Molly Sweeney (Winner of the New
York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play), Wonderful Tennessee, A Month in the Country (after
Turgenev), The London Vertigo (after Charles Macklin), Dancing at Lughnasa (Winner of 3 Tony Awards including
Best Play, New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Olivier Award for Best Play), Making History, The
Communication Cord, American Welcome, Three Sisters (after Chekhov), Translations, Aristocrats (Winner of the
Evening Standard Award for Best Play and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play), Faith
Healer, Fathers and Sons, Living Quarters, Volunteers, The Freedom of the City, The Gentle Island, The Mundy
Scheme, Crystal and Fox, Lovers: Winners and Losers, The Loves of Cass Maguire, and Philadelphia Here I Come!
of Ireland's greatest dramatists. He was a member of Aosdana, the society of Irish artists, the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, the Irish Academy of Letters, and the Royal Society of Literature where he was made
a Companion of Literature. He was awarded the Ulysses Medal by University College, Dublin.
Plays include Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen), The Home Place, Performances, Three Plays After (Afterplay, The Bear,
The Yalta Game), Uncle Vanya (after Chekhov), Give Me Your Answer Do!, Molly Sweeney (Winner of the New
York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play), Wonderful Tennessee, A Month in the Country (after
Turgenev), The London Vertigo (after Charles Macklin), Dancing at Lughnasa (Winner of 3 Tony Awards including
Best Play, New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Olivier Award for Best Play), Making History, The
Communication Cord, American Welcome, Three Sisters (after Chekhov), Translations, Aristocrats (Winner of the
Evening Standard Award for Best Play and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play), Faith
Healer, Fathers and Sons, Living Quarters, Volunteers, The Freedom of the City, The Gentle Island, The Mundy
Scheme, Crystal and Fox, Lovers: Winners and Losers, The Loves of Cass Maguire, and Philadelphia Here I Come!
Inhalt
- Intro
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Notes
- Three Sisters
- Dedication
- First Performance
- Characters
- Setting
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act Four
- A Month in the Country
- Dedication
- Preface
- Ivan Turgenev
- First Performance
- Characters
- Setting
- Act One
- SCENE ONE
- SCENE TWO
- SCENE THREE
- Act Two
- SCENE ONE
- SCENE TWO
- Uncle Vanya
- First Performance
- Characters
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act Four
- The Yalta Game
- First Performance
- Characters
- Note on the Dialogue
- The Yalta Game
- The Bear
- Note
- First Performance
- Characters
- The Bear
- Afterplay
- Author's Note
- First Performance
- Characters
- Afterplay
- Performances
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- First Performance
- Music
- Characters
- Performances
- The Home Place
- Dedication
- First performance
- Characters
- Set
- Act One
- Act Two
- Appendix
- Hedda Gabler
- Dedication
- First Performance
- Characters
- Set
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act Four
- About Brian Friel
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
