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GATE FRIEL, a season of three Brian Friel plays, has won a Herald Angel award in Edinburgh.

The Gate Theatre season, which has been running through August as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, has had excellent reviews. On Saturday it received the award for “superb stagings of three works by Brian Friel featuring first class actors, and presented in marathon sessions”.