Brian Friel
Brian Friel ( born January 9, 1929 in Omagh, Northern Ireland) is an Irish playwright.
Life and work
Friel, born 1929 in Omagh, lived a long time in the Northern Ireland Derry City before he moved to the county of Donegal in the Republic of Ireland in 1967.
He has written numerous plays ( often specifically Irish themes ) that have been translated into other languages. His first ( unpublished ) works were created in the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Philadelphia, I'm there! (1964 ) succeeded in Friel 's international breakthrough. In his works Friel repeatedly addresses the discrepancy between imagination and reality, dream and reality. Here are particularly interested in the entanglements and complications that arise from the inability of people to develop a balanced and adequate understanding of reality. In Philadelphia, I 'm there! illustrates the dilemma of the protagonist Friel between imagination and reality dramas technically even the fact that he lets him perform in the form of two different characters.
The Catholic Friel founded in 1980 with the Protestant Stephen Rea, the " Field Day Theatre Company " in Derry, who wanted to give affected by the conflict in Northern Ireland city a new basis for the common cultural identification of Catholics and Protestants. The first production of the Field Day Theatre Company was the world premiere of Friel's language disorders on 23 September 1980. Besides Stephen Rea and Liam Neeson was part of the cast.
Friel is one of currently five Saoithe at Aosdána.
1987 Friel was nominated by Taoiseach Charles Haughey J. senator in the 18th Seanad Éireann.
Lughnasa - Time of the dance was filmed in 1998 starring Meryl Streep and Michael Gambon. ( The German title of the film is dance in freedom. )