Category: Gate Theatre

  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…