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Article: THEARTRE
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1994
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If any contemporary playwright might be said to have produced
work that's been touched, on occasion, by outright genius, it's the
Irish dramatist Brian Friel, whose latest play, Molly Sweeney,
begins previewing next week at the Almeida in London. When this
piece was unveiled in Dublin last August, its close affinities in
form and theme to Friel's masterpiece Faith Healer (1979)
encouraged many critics to imply that here was a work which matched
that earlier play in poetic reach and intensity.
The Observer, for example, referred to its "already guaranteed
classic status", while the Guardian roundly declared it
"triumphant". The Financial Times, nearer to my own view, described
it as "mere ...