{"product_id":"brian-friel-plays-2-dancing-at-lughnasa-fathers-and-sons-making-history-wonderful-tennessee-and-molly-sweeney-9780571197101","title":"Brian Friel: Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney","description":"\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduced by Christopher Murray, this second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Friel\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Omagh, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) in 1929. He received his college education in Derry, Maynooth and Belfast and taught at various schools in and around Derry from 1950 to 1960. He is the author of many plays that have taken their place in the canon of Irish Literature, including \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia, Here I Come!\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), \u003ci\u003eLovers\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), \u003ci\u003eTranslations\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), \u003ci\u003eThe Communication Cord \u003c\/i\u003e(1982), and \u003ci\u003eDancing at Lughnasa\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). In 1980 he founded the touring theatre company, Field Day, with Stephen Rea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50325428633874,"sku":"9780571197101","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_32bdc5a3-f255-4e46-a2c5-62edd0b9e9b9.jpg?v=1727684543","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brian-friel-plays-2-dancing-at-lughnasa-fathers-and-sons-making-history-wonderful-tennessee-and-molly-sweeney-9780571197101","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}