Set in Ireland in 1833, Translations engages with a moment of profound change and the defacing of local heritage and history. It raises questions of cultural sovereignty and self-determination which ...

Director Braden Abraham sends his audience into total darkness at the top of his gorgeous staging of writer Brian Friel’s “Translations,” a rich and prescient Irish drama from 1980 with characters ...

Raffi Barsoumian and Mary Wiseman in Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Translations. Carol Rosegg Helpful production notes inform the audience that “the Irish characters in Translations speak ...

Owen Laheen and John Keating in Irish Repertory Theatre's “Translations.” Photo by Carol Rosegg. In the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, God gives names. “God called the light ‘day,’ and the ...

Celebrated Irish playwright Brian Friel made the subject of his play “Translations” quite clear. He said his play “has to do with language and only language,” an issue he described in a 1982 interview ...

Woven throughout Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations is the profound matter of language itself. But the viewer’s experience of the production is more likely to focus on the 10 characters whose hopes ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick An exquisite revival of Brian Friel’s 1980 play at the Irish Repertory Theater is the first of three there by the Irish author. By ...

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From L: Jonathan Weir, Kevin Gudahl, and Casey Hoekstra in Translations at Writers Theatre Credit: Michael Brosilow Irish dramatist Brian Friel set much of his work in the fictional Donegal town of ...