Brian Friel
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Brian Friel (born Bernard Patrick Friel; 9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irish dramatist, author and director of the Field Day Theatre Company. Friel was best known for plays such as Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Dancing at Lughnasa but wrote more than thirty plays in a six-decade spanning career that saw him elected Saoi of Aosdána. His plays were a regular feature on Broadway throughout this time.
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List of works
- A Sort of Freedom (unpublished radio play, 1958)
- To This Hard House (unpublished radio play, 1958)
- A Doubtful Paradise (unpublished, 1960)
- The Enemy Within (1962)
- The Blind Mice (unpublished, 1963)
- Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964)
- The Founder Members (unpublished TV play, 1964)
- Three Fathers, Three Sons (unpublished TV play, 1964)
- The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966)
- Lovers: Winners and Losers (1967)
- Crystal and Fox (1968)
- The Mundy Scheme (1969)
- The Gentle Island (1971)
- The Freedom of the City (1973)
- Volunteers (1975)
- Farewell to Ardstraw (unpublished BBC TV play, 1976)
- The Next Parish (unpublished BBC TV play, 1976)
- Living Quarters (1977)
- Faith Healer (1979)
- Aristocrats (1979)
- Translations (1980)
- Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov translation, 1981)
- American Welcome (7-minute one-act play, 1981)
- The Communication Cord (1982)
- Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev adaptation, 1987)
- Making History (1988)
- Dancing at Lughnasa (1990)
- The London Vertigo (Charles Macklin adaptation, 1991)
- A Month in the Country (Turgenev adaptation, 1992)
- Wonderful Tennessee (1993)
- Molly Sweeney (1994)
- Give Me Your Answer, Do! (1997)
- Uncle Vanya (Chekhov adaptation, 1998)
- The Yalta Game (one-act Chekhov adaptation, 2001)
- The Bear (one-act Chekhov adaptation, 2002)
- Afterplay (one-act play, 2002)
- Performances (70-minute one-act play, 2003)
- The Home Place (2005)
- Hedda Gabler (Henrick Ibsen adaptation, 2008)
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