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Wildcat Coach Gerry Friel, who in his 17 years at UNH has piled up more wins--and losses--than any other coach in the program's history, approached Roby...
...Roby, the game was his third career loss. For Friel, it was his 166th career...
...begins and ends the Quincy House Theatrical's production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City. We start off and conclude with the same event. But we must concentrate hard to determine what happens in the interim. Throughout the morass of plot, we have to distinguish the various lines and hope they don't get hopelessly tangled...
This play is literate, wise, perceptive, humane and wryly humorous, but as drama it needs a blood transfusion. Structure may be the chief culprit. Irish Play wright Brian Friel has divided the play into four Rashomon-style monologues. The first and last are spoken by Frank (James Mason), the faith healer, the second by Grace (Clarissa Kaye), his wife, and the third by Teddy (Donal Donnelly), Frank's promotional warmup...
...Friel uses faith healing as a resonant metaphor of the artist and his gift, the mystery of how the muse inspires, deserts and sometimes destroys its own. Friel leaves the subject as murky as he found it, but his actors are luminous. Returning to Broadway after 32 years, Mason is a necromancer at his craft. His real-life wife, Clarissa Kaye, seems like a Mother Courage on loan, and Donnelly is a mischievous imp dressed in the motley philosophy of show biz. Faith healers...