English Literature: Brian Friel, Translations
Œuvre au programme de lecture de l'épreuve orale d'anglais, langue de complément LV1, en série littéraire, pour l'examen du baccalauréat général, sessions 2005 et 2006
"Do your job - translate." Translations Act III
"...in many respects an intelligent and enlightening metaphor for the situation in Northern Ireland."
Seamus Deane"The play has to do with language and only language"
Brian Friel
- Brian Friel:
- Born 1929 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland
Translations was first performed on 23rd September 1980 by the Field Day Theatre Company
Translations is a set text on many British A and A/S level examination syallabi...
Selected online resources
Synopsis of the play Translations.
Revision guide online from Teachit. (A guide for the A level Drama examination in the United Kingdom). In itself a de facto 'webquest' on Friel's play with links to explore, questions for guidance and a sample essay: What is the role of Owen in Translations?
Resource page for Brian Friel with a six-page revision guide Translations. (Longroad Sixth Form College, Cambridge).
Notes on Brian Friel's Translations: Background history, characterization, study notes, parallels between Acts I and III. Revision notes.
Exploration of Translations by fourth-year drama students at the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
Historical and Colonial Context .
History, Language and the Post-colonial question.
Biography and useful information about Friel and his works.
Background - Ireland: Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory.
Life of Brian - Short page with information on Friel and Ireland.
Review: The play: Translations at the Dramat Ex Theater, Yale.
Reviews: Irish Classical Theatre Company.
Essay - Translation difficulties in Translations.
Audio (mp3 6.2MB) Text: Professor Stan Lombardo, Classics Professor at the University of Kansas speaks and discusses all the Latin and Greek text in Brian Friel's Translations.
Notes on "Role and Function of characters."
Instant Essay - "Language has been the topic of man."
Set design for a production at the University of Tulsa.
En français - Comédie de Saint Etienne.