Latest news with #FrielDays
Belfast Telegraph
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
NI actress ‘thrilled' to star in tribute to legendary literary figure who had left her ‘starstruck'
The NI actress discusses bringing Brian Friel's masterpiece to life as part of FrielDays festival, writes Áine Toner FrielDays: A Homecoming will build to the centenary of the birth of Brian Friel, one of Ireland's most well-known literary figures. The event will bring 29 plays to venues across the three northwest border counties of Donegal, Derry and Tyrone, where Friel lived and worked.
Belfast Telegraph
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
Jayne Wisener: Why performing Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa near the home that inspired it is special
The NI actress discusses bringing Brian Friel's masterpiece to life as part of FrielDays festival, writes Áine Toner FrielDays: A Homecoming will build to the centenary of the birth of Brian Friel, one of Ireland's most well-known literary figures. The event will bring 29 plays to venues across the three northwest border counties of Donegal, Derry and Tyrone, where Friel lived and worked.
Irish Independent
26-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Finding Friel in Donegal: ‘It is the first time actors from different ethnicities have been asked to speak his words in a professional production'
Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the playwright's death, his hometown of Glenties will take centre stage for the opening of a unique five-year project celebrating his work in the places that inspired it Cupped in the hands of the Bluestack Mountains, the heritage town of Glenties in south west Donegal is about to take a starring role in one of this island's most ambitious ever theatre projects. It's fitting that the town, beloved of renowned playwright Brian Friel — who died 10 years ago this October — should take centre stage at the opening of FrielDays, a five-year project celebrating the work of a man who loved this town and its environs.
