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Early Career
1980's and 1990'sTranslations was premiered in 1980 at the Guildhall in Derry, Northern Ireland. Set in 1833, it is "a play about language and only about language", yet it was an instant hit as the allegorical references to the troubles in Northern Ireland at the time are, in places, overt and rather obvious. Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) is probably his most successful play, premiered at the Abbey Theatre, and then transferred to London's West End and went on to Broadway, where it won three Tony Awards in 1992, including Best Play. Late WorksFriel's most recent work is The Home Place (2004), which after a sold-out season at the Gate Theater in Dublin, transferred to London's West End on 25 May 2005. Friel's Success
Brian Friel was awarded an honorary doctorate by Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois in 1974.[1] In 1989, BBC Radio devoted a six-play season to his work, the first living playwright to be so distinguished. Friel received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Times in 1999. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the (British) Royal Society of Literature and the Irish Academy of Letters.[2] Friel co-founded (together with actor Stephen Rea and fellow alumni from St. Columb's, Tom Paulin, Seamus Heaney and Seamus Deane) the Field Day Theatre Company, where many of his pieces, including Translations (1980), The Communication Cord (1982) and Making History (1988) premiered. On 22 January 2006 Friel was presented with a gold Torc by President Mary McAleese in recognition of the fact that that the members of Aosdána have elected him a Saoi. Only five members of Aosdána can hold this honour at any one time and Friel joins fellow Saoithe Louis leBrocquy, Benedict Kiely, Seamus Heaney and Anthony Cronin. Friel lives in Donegal, where he moved to from Derry in 1967, and lives a life in the quiet, rural seclusion which often talks of in his plays. Miscellaneous1. Friel's plays are often characterised by very heavy stage directions, from which much information is alluded to, and can be gleaned about the setting, characters and meaning 2. Friel uses a lot of foreshadowing in many of his plays, sometimes subtely and sometimes (when analysing the text, it seems) more heavy handedly Plays
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