Ballybeg en el recuerdo: La obra dramática de Brian Friel y su huella en España.

2012

Brian Friel, nacido en Omagh, Irlanda del Norte, en 1929, está considerado hoy en día como el dramaturgo vivo más importante de Irlanda. Renovador del panorama cultural y teatral irlandés, bebe, no obstante, de la tradición dramática de sus predecesores: William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey y Samuel Beckett. Ha mostrado a lo largo de su prolífica carrera como autor dramático - con más de treinta obras teatrales estrenadas - su espíritu inquieto e innovador, cuya evolución corre paralela a la de esta sociedad, la irlandesa, y especialmente su comunidad, Irlanda del Norte, que ha experimentado cambios espectaculares, un país que a principios del siglo XX era todavía una c…

En tierra de nadie

2007

In the Beginning Was Silence: Brian Friel's Revisitation of the Artist

2017

When writing his 1997 play Give Me Your Answer, Do!, Brian Friel made an “exciting discovery”: Harpocrates, the God of Silence. For a writer who had been so much at pains to show on stage the inability of words to communicate the innermost feelings, this infant god was readily embraced as the perfect symbol with which to begin and end, as in the Ancient Rome, this transcendent performance. By placing the character of Bridget, an inarticulate autistic girl, at the beginning and at the ending of Give Me Your Answer, Do!, Friel counterbalances the “sound and the fury” that pervades modern life as reflected in the three couples of the play, while, at the same time, this reminds the audience of …

The Golden Thread : Irish Women Playwrights, volumes 1 and 2

2022

This is one of those indispensable works that will influence the future of performance studies and feminist criticism. The number and variety of voices on display, the effort in the reconstruction of the canon by adding women playwrights who had been erased in the past, and the declared ambition to draw attention to and create the conditions for revivals and publications of plays created by contemporary women playwrights make this extensive compilation more than recommendable. Although from a very subjective perspective, I also find the use of the footnotes useful because, in my opinion, they help to facilitate the reading flow and allow us to benefit to the maximum from the large amount of…