Lughnasa International Friel Festival

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Director Annabelle Comyn. Photograph: Christopher Heaney
The dark heart of Dancing at Lughnasa
  • Stage
  • September 1, 2015, 06:00

It seems remarkable that an Irish play celebrated for its insight into female experience should never have been directed, in Ireland, by a woman. N(...)

The inaugural Lughnasa International Friel Festival, celebrating the playwright Brian Friel, began on August 20th and runs in locations across Donegal and Belfast until Tuesday, August 31st. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien 7/2/99
Literary listings: Friel fever; CBI conference; Hanya Yanagihara in Dublin; Turn at Tara
  • Books
  • August 21, 2015, 12:02

Friel fever hits Northern Ireland The inaugural Lughnasa International Friel Festival began on August 20th and runs in locations across Donegal(...)

Mesmeric: Maguy Marin’s non-narrative dance piece May B, the headlining show at this year’s Happy Days International Festival in Enniskillen
Happy Days on bleak sets and Beckett gets schooled

Samuel Beckett’s granite face looms over the counter at Sweeney’s butcher shop. In The Jolly Sandwich cafe there are a variety of Beckettian treats(...)

Playwright Brian Friel with a portrait of himself by artist Mick O’Dea, which was unveiled in 2010 as part of the National Portrait Collection in the National Gallery Dublin. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Brian Friel to be honoured at cross-Border festival

Playwright Brian Friel, described by former US president Bill Clinton “as an Irish treasure for the entire world”, will be honoured next month in a (...)