Word: friels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa dominated the 1992 Tony awards and this season will be the most produced play in the U.S., with at least 16 major regional stagings. The arrival of his new Wonderful Tennessee was a major Broadway event. Alas, so was its departure at week's end. A lesser work than Lughnasa, it failed because it is also a bleaker one. While Lughnasa portrayed in poignant detail the hard times of the five Mundy sisters in rural Ireland in 1937 and foreshadowed still worse things to befall them, the dominant memory it left...
Hellman did have one thing right: Mahoney is Irish and proud of it. In 1991 she spent 10 months on the old sod, sipping Guinness in drafty pubs and listening to people who often sound as if they had just strolled in from a Brian Friel play. Steeling herself for the unknown, Mahoney nervously checks out a lesbians-only night at a seedy Dublin bar. (Asked if she's gay, she lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked...
Fittingly, in a season when the Great White Way once again has an inner glow, this most Broadwayesque of musicals leads the way. It has been a season of powerhouse new plays by August Wilson, Herb Gardner, Neil Simon, Brian Friel and Richard Nelson. It has been a season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson...
...best ensemble cast since Nicholas Nickleby, performing the most elegant and rueful memory play since Broadway Bound, if not The Glass Menagerie. In a weary and mutually tolerant Irish family of five sisters and a brother, playwright Brian Friel finds a whole world, pagan and Christian, ancient and modern, savage and sedate. Through a lifetime of theatergoing, one would be lucky to see acting any better than this...
...best ensemble cast since Nicholas Nickleby, performing the most elegant and rueful memory play since Broadway Bound, if not The Glass Menagerie. In a weary and mutually tolerant Irish family of five sisters and a brother, playwright Brian Friel finds a whole world, pagan and Christian, ancient and modern, savage and sedate. Through a lifetime of theatergoing, one would be lucky to see acting any better than this...