Brian Friel: Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney

by Brian Friel

Book Overview

Plays Two:
Dancing at Lughnasa
Fathers and Sons
Making History
Wonderful Tennessee
Molly Sweeney

Introduced by Christopher Murray, this second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage.

From 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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571197108
• ISBN13: 9780571197101
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Dramatic Readings

Friel on the page is almost as vivid as he is on stage.

The Greatest Irish Dramatist Alive

Really, to call Friel an Irish playwright is to pigeon hole him unfairly. This group of plays by Brian Friel attests to his extraordinary talent as a modern playwright, period. He dramatizes the human journey using equal doses of humor, pathos and tragedy. These remarkable, fully-dimensional characters leap of the page, or, if you're very lucky, the stage. No avid theater fan should be without these works of art. Order this collection immediately.