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Title: Translations by Brian Friel ISBN: 0-571-11742-2 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 16 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: That Good, I Directed the Play
Comment: Over the past few nights I have directed this play at my college. I am studying the book as part of my English 'A' Level course, and you'd think I'd get bored of it, but no, I love this book. Being Irish, I feel that it captures the very essence of Irish culture, and the hatred portrayed by Manus toward the English soldiers, is caught so well by Friel. Definitive and Encapsulating, I love this story. Tragedy or no, it's one of the best books I have read about the fall of one's culture through Language. It challenges the typical stereotype of the Irish, and shows how pompus the English could be! BUY IT!
Rating: 5
Summary: Beauty Translates Itself
Comment: I felt moved to add a review of Translations after reading several of the reviews other readers have left. Brian Friel has a feel for language that is nothing short of miraculous. This play in particular is a delicate and wonderful portrait of the universality of human experience. If you care enough to read these reviews you owe it to yourself to read this play. I am a long time admirer of Mr. Friel and I saw a remarkable production of this play in London several years ago. There are times - rare times - when a person leaves a theater and doesn't feel the ground under his feet because of the transport of the experience. That was one such performance, and this is that fine a play.
Rating: 4
Summary: Phlisophy hits home
Comment: I enjoyed reading other reviews, but i was constantly getting the feeling that there was a real ingorance to the underlining theme of the play. On the surface it is about human emotions and the trials a change in culture can have on a society. Friel also challenges the sugnificance of language itself and forces us to seek the relevance of the communication we use. It is thought provoking causing us to realise that everything is subject to human perception, making us questionwhether any liguistic source is reliable, is language just a guise for the truth? Must read for anyone challenging the relevance of everything we know to be real.
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Title: The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge ISBN: 0486275620 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 12 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Look Back in Anger by John Osborne ISBN: 0140481753 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel ISBN: 0571144799 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Complete Plays: The Ruffain on the Stair, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, the Good and Faithful Servant, Loot, the Erpingham Camp, Funeral Games, What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton ISBN: 0802132154 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Glengarry Glen Ross (An Evergreen Book) by David Mamet ISBN: 0802130917 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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