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In celebration of his 80th year and to mark his forty-five year relationship with the Gate Theatre, the Gate will present GATE | FRIEL in Dublin from 9 – 19 September. This festival, which has recently toured to the Sydney Festival 09 and is currently being presented at the Edinburgh International Festival, includes three of his masterworks: Faith Healer, Afterplay, and The Yalta Game.
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FAITH HEALER |
THE YALTA GAME |
AFTERPLAY |
Faith Healer influenced a generation of Irish writing for
the theatre. Frank Hardy, faith healer, has spent a life time
touring the decayed villages of Scotland and Wales with his
manager, Teddy, and his wife/mistress, Grace.
The story of their touring and of their fateful return is told
in amusing, often contradictory, stories by Grace and Teddy
and Frank himself. These narratives taken together make
up a mosaic that is both seductive and terrifying. |
‘ONE OF THE FINEST PLAYS WRITTEN
IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE’
The Irish Times |
Director: Robin Lefèvre
Cast: Ingrid Craigie · Kim Durham · Owen Roe
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8.30pm
9th · 10th · 12th · 13th · 16th · 17th · 18th · 19th Sept
Duration:
2hr 20mins (incl 15 min interval).
Tickets €30
Book online and choose your seats www.gatetheatre.ie |
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After Anton Chekhov.
The Yalta Game is based on a theme in one of the
greatest short stories ever written, Chekhov’s The Lady
with the Lapdog. The play tells the story of an accountant
who holidays alone, leaving his family behind in Moscow.
While away, he plays a game of amorous dalliance, and
happens on a young wife with her pet dog.
Friel unravels a thread of Chekhov’s original and weaves
it afresh into a comical tapestry of longings. |
‘PATRICK MASON’S DEFT AND NUANCED
PRODUCTION IS A MASTERCLASS’
The Sun-Herald |
Director: Patrick Mason
Cast: Risteárd Cooper ·
Rebecca O’Mara
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4.00pm
13th · 19th Sept
6.30pm
10th · 12th · 17th Sept
8.30pm
15th Sept
Duration:
50mins (no interval).
Tickets €25
Book online and choose your seats www.gatetheatre.ie |
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In Afterplay, Friel humorously brings together two of Chekhov’s
lost souls: Sonya, uncle Vanya’s devoted niece, and
Andrey, the three sisters henpecked brother. Twenty
years have passed since the events of Chekhov’s plays
and, in those intervening years, the world of Russia has
turned upside down.
Together these two refugees unite, from an earlier
time, under the glass gazebo of a run down Moscow café.
The two gradually reveal what has happened to their
families – and to their own quiet hopes. |
'AN EXQUISITE HOUR ON STAGE.’
The Sunday Independent |
Director: Garry Hynes
Cast: Frances Barber · Niall Buggy
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4.00pm
12th Sept
6.30pm
13th · 15th · 18th · 19th Sept
8.30pm
11th Sept
Duration:
1hr (no interval).
Tickets €25
Book online and choose your seats www.gatetheatre.ie |
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