Performances
By (Author) Brian Friel
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
64
Width 127mm, Height 197mm, Spine 5mm
61g
This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Jan cek, the passion he felt for a married woman nearly forty years his junior and his final surge of creative energy.Performances premi red at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2003.
Born 9 January 1929, Catholic, in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel is one of Ireland's most prominent playwrights. In addition to his published plays, he has written short stories; screenplays; film, TV and Radio adaptations of his plays; and several pieces of non-fiction on the role of theatre and the artist.