Category: Brian Friel

Photo by Brett Boardman Belvoir presents, THE FAITH HEALER, by Brian Friel, in the Belvoir Upstairs Theatre, Belvoir St, Surry Hills, 26 October – 27 November. The lights faded to black. The play, THE FAITH HEALER, was finished. The stage lighting came back up and it was a kind of surprise, shock, wonder, when on the furniture-empty raised platform, surrounded by a panorama of painted tumultuous clouds, only three actors stood there to take the curtain call. Colin Friels, Alison Whyte and Pip Miller. They looked so few on that, what appeared to be now, very spare space. For in…

  Brian Friel – Photo by Bobbie Hanvey GATE THEATRE DUBLIN and the SYDNEY FESTIVAL present Afterplay and The Yalta Game by Brian Friel at the Parade Theatre. AFTERPLAY and THE YALTA GAME are both short “entree” one act pieces.(Interestingly, they are usually presented together, sometimes with The Bear, as a full night’s entertainment, whereas the Festival has presented these works as separate pieces.Two Admission costs.) Both the plays are little “gems” of entertainment but are hardly a substantial experience singularly. With AFTERPLAY, Mr Friel has taken the indulgence of re-imagining two of Chekhov’s characters from two different plays, Sonya…

  Faith Healer – Sydney Festival 2009 – Photo by Trent O’Donnell   GATE THEATRE DUBLIN and the SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2009 present A Celebration of the Work of Brian Friel: FAITH HEALER at the Parade Theatre. FAITH HEALER is the first of three plays that, at the invitation of the Sydney Festival, the Gate Theatre Dublin are presenting as a celebration of the work of Brian Friel, Irish playwright, celebrating, this January, his 80th year. This was the company that two years ago, in the same venue, presented a season of Beckett plays. Brian Friel is one of the great…