Friel's classic play to be staged at the Linenhall

The multi-award-winning Phoenix Players from Tubbercurry will come to the Linenhall Theatre in Castlebar on Tuesday next, April 15th, with their production of Brian Friel's Translations.

Friel’s classic explores language, love, relationships, co-existence, colonisation, nationality and identity.

Be sure to come and support this community-based drama group who are winning rave reviews with this excellent production before they perform at the All-Ireland Drama Finals in Claremorris later this month.

The play begins at 8pm.

Directed by Eamonn Óg Gallagher, Translations shows us pupils in a hedge-school in Baile Beag, an unlikely focal point for a changing world. Tensions are growing, Royal engineers are arriving and the relationship between people and nations beams through the lens of language and (mis)communication. This play is as relevant in today’s world as it was in its setting of Baile Beag in the 1830s.