Performances

Brian Friel

Performances, by Brian Friel, explores the relationship the the private life and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek, and his final surge of creative energy.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571227938
Date Published
03.03.2005
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Summary

This enthralling play considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek, the passion he felt for a married woman nearly forty years his junior, and his final surge of creative energy.

Performances premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in 2003.

BrianFriel

Brian Friel (9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) wrote thirty plays across six decades and is widely regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest dramatists. He was a member of Aosdána, the society of Irish artists, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Irish Academy of Letters, and the Royal Society of Literature where he was made a Companion…

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