Friel on Stage: Translations
10th-Anniversary Season: Brian Friel (and Other Irish Voices)
To celebrate its 10th-anniversary season, Stanford Summer Theater (SST) proudly presents Brian Friel (and Other Irish Voices). Arguably the greatest living Irish playwright, Brian Friel has produced an incomparable body of plays, adaptations, and short stories dealing with the intersection of language, politics, art, and cultural renewal. As co-founder (with actor/director Stephen Rea) of the Field Day Theatre Company, Friel also has played a significant role in confronting the "troubles" that have so affected life in Northern Ireland.
SST presents two of Friel's greatest and most moving plays, Translations and Faith Healer (featuring Stanford Summer Theater guest artists Geoff Hoyle and Andrew Robinson). An all-day community symposium will put Friel's work in its wider Irish context, with lectures, performances, and panels drawing on Stanford faculty and SST artists. Finally, our seven-week film series screens some of the best Irish films, from John Huston's version of James Joyce's The Dead to Pat O'Connor's treatment of Friels own. Join Continuing Studies and Stanford Summer Theater for our 10th-anniversary season, and celebrate the art, struggle, and inspiration that is Brian Friel (and Other Irish Voices).
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Friel on Stage: Translations
Directed by Associate Artistic Director Ed Iskandar
Considered Friel's masterpiece, Translations tells of the effort to "translate" all the names on the Irish map into English, part of the British colonization of Ireland. Starring Geoff Hoyle as the patriarch of a rural family facing an uncertain future, Translations explores lost dreams and impossible love caught in the barrier of language, and yet it does so through the most beautiful language on the contemporary stage.
Performance schedule: July 10 - 27
Thursdays through Sundays at 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
Pigott Theater, behind Memorial Auditorium
For ticket information, visit http://summertheater.stanford.edu.
For more information about the Summer Theater's season, "Brian Friel (And Other Irish Voices)," please summertheater.stanford.edu.
Please visit other SST lineups:
* Friel in Context
* Friel on Stage: Faith Healer
* Friel and Others on Film
Sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford University Drama Department, the School of Humanities & Sciences, and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts. Summer Theater Festival