Redigerer Brian Friel

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'''Brian Friel''' (født [[9. januar]] [[1929]] i  Killyclogher nær [[Omagh]] i [[Nord-Irland]], død [[2. oktober]] [[2015]] i Greencastle i [[County Donegal]] i [[Irland]]) var en irsk [[dramatiker]], oversetter og teaterinstruktør, som i løpet av en lang skrivende karriere fikk ry på seg som en av sin tids ledende irske dramatikere.<ref name="times-friel-letters-exile">Nightingale, Benedict. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article5774491.ece "Brian Friel's letters from an internal exile"] {{Wayback|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article5774491.ece |date=20210214185452 }}. ''The Times''. 23 February 2009. "But if it fuses warmth, humour and melancholy as seamlessly as it should, it will make a worthy birthday gift for Friel, who has just turned 80, and justify his status as one of Ireland's seven Saoi of the Aosdána, meaning that he can wear the Golden Torc round his neck and is now officially what we fans know him to be: a Wise Man of the People of Art and, maybe, the greatest living English-language dramatist."</ref><ref name="Seeing, in Brian Friel's Ballybeg">Canby, Vincent.[http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9A01E7DB1339F93BA35752C0A960958260 "Seeing, in Brian Friel's Ballybeg"]. ''The New York Times''. 8 January 1996. "Brian Friel has been recognized as Ireland's greatest living playwright almost since the first production of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in Dublin in 1964. In succeeding years he has dazzled us with plays that speak in a language of unequaled poetic beauty and intensity. Such dramas as "Translations," "Dancing at Lughnasa" and "Wonderful Tennessee," among others, have given him a privileged place in our theater."</ref><ref>Kemp, Conrad. [http://mg.co.za/article/2010-06-25-in-the-beginning-was-image "In the beginning was the image"]. ''Mail & Guardian''. 25 June 2010. "Brian Friel, who wrote Translations and Philadelphia ... Here I Come, and who is regarded by many as one of the world's greatest living playwrights, has suggested that there is, in fact, no real need for a director on a production."</ref>

== Verker, adaptasjoner ==
* 1958: ''This Doubtful Paradise''
* 1962: ''The Enemy Within''
* 1964: ''Philadelphia Here I Come!'' 
* 1967: ''Lovers''
* 1968: ''Crystal and Fox''
* 1973: ''The Freedom of the City''
* 1975: ''Volunteers''
* 1977: ''Living Quarters''
* 1979: ''Aristocrats''
* 1980: ''Faith Healer'' 
* 1980: ''Translations'' 
* 1981: ''Three Sisters'',adapsjon av [[Anton Pavlovitsj Tsjekhov]]
* 1982: ''The Communication Cord'' 
* 1989: ''Making History''
* 1990: ''Dancing at Lughnasa'' 
* 1992: ''A Month in the Country'', adaptsjon, [[Ivan Sergejevitsj Turgenev]]
* 1993: ''Wonderful Tennessee''
* 1995: ''Molly Sweeney''
* 1997: ''Give Me Your Answer, Do!''
* 1998: ''Uncle Vanya'', adapsjon, Tsjekhov
* 2001: ''The Yalta Game'', adapsjon, Tsjekhov
* 2002: ''The Bear'', adapsjon, Tsjekhov
* 2003: ''Performances''
* 2005: ''The Home Place''
* 2008: ''Hedda Gabler'', adaptasjon, [[Henrik Ibsen]]

== Referanser ==
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== Litteratur ==
* Tony Coult: ''About Friel: the Playwright and the Work.'' Faber & Faber, London 2003, ISBN 0-571-20164-4
* Jochen Achilles: ''“Philadelphia, here I come!”'' In: Martha Kleinhans, [[Klaus Stierstorfer]] (Hrsg.): ''Lektüren für das 21. Jahrhundert. Schlüsseltexte europäischer Literatur: England, Frankreich, Irland, Italien, Portugal, Russland.'' [[Königshausen & Neumann]], Würzburg, 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1944-X, S. 1–26.
* Jochen Achilles, Rüdiger Imhof: ''Achilles’ Art''. In: Jochen Achilles, Rüdiger Imhof (Hrsg.): ''Irische Dramatiker der Gegenwart.'' [[Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft|WBG]], Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12656-4, S. 38–55
* Geraldine Higgins: ''Brian Friel''. Northcote House, Tavistock 2010, ISBN 978-0-7463-1130-1
* Walter T. Rix: ''Reflexionen des Nordirlandkonfliks: Das irische Drama als Forum des Zeitgeschehens (Brian Friel: The Freedom of the City. 1974).'' In: Horst Groene, Berthold Schik (Hrsg.): ''Das moderne Drama im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II, Grundlegungen, Interpretationen, Kursprojekte''. Scriptor Verlag, Königstein/Ts. 1980, ISBN 3-589-20743-4, s. 77–98

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