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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The difficulty of severing the skeins to one's past is the theme in Brian Friel's delicately woven tapestry of a young Irishman saying farewell to his homeland...
...Brian Friel's delicate tapestry of a young...
...Loves of Cass McGuire, by Brian Friel, whispers along for three feeble acts, but it has no secret to tell. It whispers of dead young brides and deaf old crones, of dreams, fantasies and betrayals, of the brief pleasure and passing pain some men give some women, and of how the life of the old drowns in memory. The bitter beauty of human existence that irradiated Playwright Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! last season nowhere shines in this play...
Playwright Friel never stopwatches a line, and he has a rhetorical tic. Talk may be the crust of drama, but it can never be the core...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! How it looked from Ireland is the perspective offered through the lens of Playwright Brian Friel. Patrick Bedford and Donald Donnelly make pleasing impressions as double exposures of a young man about to take a one-way jet to America...