{"product_id":"9780571197101","title":"Brian Friel: Plays 2 : Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Friel: Plays 2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Brian Friel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlays Two:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing at Lughnasa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFathers and Sons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWonderful Tennessee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMolly Sweeney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduced by Christopher Murray, this second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the troubled family life of five sisters in 1930s Donegal that is the core of Dancing at Lughnasa (now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep) to the current-day birthday celebration that is the major external event of Wonderful Tennessee, Brian Friel demonstrates his emotional range and empathy for his characters. He evokes not simply the interior landscape of human beings trapped in their domestic situation but the wider landscape-interior and exterior-of which they are a part.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The play, brilliantly constructed, is the best Friel has yet written.” —\u003ci\u003eObserver on Dancing at Lughnasa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A delicately written play that subtly alters the emphasis of Turgenev's book in the light of modern experience.” —\u003ci\u003eGuardian on Fathers and Sons (after Turgenev)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is Friel's most accomplished and important play since \u003ci\u003eTranslations...\u003c\/i\u003eIt has the same suppleness of argument and beauty of writing.” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times on Making History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Friel is a master...The play is a brilliantly notated fugue of laughter and lament.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker on Wonderful Tennessee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A dramatic poem of cumulative power and irresistible poignancy.” —\u003ci\u003eObserver on Molly Sweeney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Of all the contemporary authors, there is no one I admire more highly than Brian Friel...\u003ci\u003eMolly Sweeney \u003c\/i\u003eis magnificent, and I read it with great joy.” —\u003ci\u003ePeter Brook on Molly Sweeney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Once again, Friel has achieved a masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday on Molly Sweeney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780571197101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593062330574,"sku":"9780571197101","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_b8479394-aa40-4ec0-9528-30da3eff6ef9.jpg?v=1637780334","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780571197101","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}