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Article: For Friel the play is still the thing at seventy.(Irish playwright Brian Friel)
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- July 1, 1999
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In past days, there were the Dublin theatrical "seasons" built around the works of George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and Brendan Behan. More recently, we have had seasons of Samuel Beckett, Eugene O'Neill, and Harold Pinter.
However, it's not often that a living playwright sees a festival of no less than seventeen of his works performed over a range of theaters across Ireland's capital city - and further afield.
But that's what has been happening - from April to August - to the extraordinary Brian Friel, with an exhibition of the playwright's letters, scripts, photographs, a conference on his works, pre-show talks, adaptations, new productions, ...