Word: friel
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...Faith Healer The one-person show is, I confess, not my favorite form of theater, and this play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel is essentially four of them, delivered by three different characters who never interact onstage: an itinerant faith healer (who, being the title character, gets to talk twice), his wife and his manager. The actors ? Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid ? are wonderful, but this is one very long slog, with whatever dramatic momentum is generated dissipated by a climax of rather annoying obliqueness. This is the sort of self-conscious showcase for ?writing? and ?acting? that...
...Suburban Motel, the story is set on the dark side of the falls, a place that a cheesy voice-over labels "the most romantic place on earth for lovers young and old." The central feature here is a handful of finely wrought performances, beginning with that of Anna Friel. Her edgy portrayal of Denise, an ex-junkie-prostitute trying to reclaim her daughter, is as sharp as a knife. Despite far subtler roles, Wendy Crewson and Peter Keleghan are equally cutting as a middle-aged, middle-class couple facing financial ruin. They act cool, but their words (and later their...
Brogan, 46, a member of the old guard at CFD, is the descendant of a family with a rich pedigree in firefighting: the Friels. As a boy in North Cambridge, he played at the CFD station, the same one where his grandfather had made the Friel name famous by creating the country’s second rescue team. In the office that he shares with a set of three other rotating lieutenants, Brogan proudly shows a copy of a photo of his grandfather with the pioneering horse-drawn rescue team...
After Brogan’s grandfather, the rest of the family’s males joined the CFD—Uncle Willy Friel, two of his brothers, his cousin Ed, maybe a few other uncles. It’s hard to keep track, Brogan says, smiling. The black sheep was one uncle who left CFD for law school...
Rohit Chopra ’04 and Jessica R. Stannard-Friel ’04 are elected president and vice-president of the Undergraduate Council by a wide margin. The election attracts the largest ever voter turnout in the eight years that popular elections had been held...