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Brian Friel in Conversation (Hardcover)
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Brian Friel in Conversation (Hardcover)
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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The reluctance of contemporary Irish playwright Brian Friel to
speak with the press is legendary. Fortunately, his willingness on
occasion to grant interviews has fortuitously coincided with the
productions of his pivotal works, including the highly celebrated
"Dancing at Lughnasa," recently released as a motion picture
starring Meryl Streep. In this comprehensive volume, theater critic
and scholar Paul Delaney gathers an amazingly broad and
consistently engaging range of Friel's conversations with
interviewers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Friel talks with disarming openness about his own life. He is also
surprisingly candid in decrying a "dehydration of humanity" in
Pinter and an "abnegation of life" in Beckett, in pondering the
dangers of Irish writers who are "having to use a language that
isn't our own," in revealing that his plays grow out of a
willingness to "delve into a particular corner of yourself that's
dark and uneasy," and in talking about the way that "Dancing at
Lughnasa" manifests his sense of "a need for the pagan in
life."
Friel has preferred to talk primarily with Irish interviewers
throughout much of his career, and many of his most important
interviews were printed in rather obscure publications. "Brian
Friel in Conversation" makes available interviews that were
formally virtually inaccessible, as well as more recent interviews
in places such as the "New York Times, Vanity Fair," and "Vogue."
The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and discography
of Friel interviews to aid further reading and research.
Paul Delaney is Professor of English, Westmont College. He is the
author of "Tom Stoppard: The Moral Vision of the Major Plays" and
editor of "Tom Stoppard in Conversation," a collection of
interviews.
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