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Aristocrats

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 6m

"A lovely play, funny and harrowing. Mr. Friel makes the Irish condition synonymous with the human one." - The New York Times

"Poignant, moving." - New York Daily News

"Gently provocative and vastly entertaining." -

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 6m

Details

Summary
The O'Donnell family, once the aristocracy of their Irish village, are in reduced circumstances. They have gathered at the crumbling family manse for a wedding. As the patriarch lies dying in his upstairs bedroom, the grown up children sort out the truth about the family's past, present and future and the reality that the O'Donnell clan of Ballybeg has come to the end of its line.
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    • No Special Cautions

Media

"A lovely play, funny and harrowing. Mr. Friel makes the Irish condition synonymous with the human one." - The New York Times

"Poignant, moving." - New York Daily News

"Gently provocative and vastly entertaining." - The New York Post

"Somber and elegiac but shrewd; touchingly funny and full of a brooding but hard edged melancholy." - London Times

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Brian Friel

Brian Friel (1929-2015), largely considered modern Ireland’s leading playwright, was born to a schoolmaster and a postmistress. After working as a teacher in Derry for ten years, he married Anne Morrison and moved to Donegal to begin writing in earnest. His first significant ...

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