"It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language."
✒ #BrianFriel, Irish author, playwright, and director, #DOTD 2 October 2015. #Theatre #Literature

"It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language."
✒ #BrianFriel, Irish author, playwright, and director, #DOTD 2 October 2015. #Theatre #Literature
🌍 Ballybeg Goes Global | Join us at NLI for an international celebration of #BrianFriel’s work with scholars + performers exploring how his plays have travelled across languages + cultures
With performances in French & te reo Māori, Senegalese music & more
📅 2 Oct | 2–8pm
https://ow.ly/Gqxy50ZPImZ
🌍 Ballybeg Goes Global | Join us at NLI for an international celebration of #BrianFriel’s work with scholars + performers exploring how his plays have travelled across languages + cultures
With performances in French & te reo Māori, Senegalese music & more
📅 2 Oct | 2–8pm
https://ow.ly/Gqxy50ZPImZ
🌍 Ballybeg Goes Global | Join us at NLI for an international celebration of #BrianFriel’s work with scholars + performers exploring how his plays have travelled across languages + cultures
With performances in French & te reo Māori, Senegalese music & more
📅 2 Oct | 2–8pm
https://ow.ly/Gqxy50ZPImZ
A Month in the Country ★★★★★ Donmar Warehouse | Aug 22 - Oct 3, 2026
REVIEW: tinyurl.com/4r24mkwr
#SophieOkonedo and a superb cast ensure that #BrianFriel’s version of #Turgenev’s classic is a compelling, comic and charged evening of theatre