Brian Friel: trapped in silence by Colm Tóibín

With a new production of Friel's first play at the Donmar, Colm Tóibín re-examines the works of a writer whose characters' words often conceal as much as they revealIn all his work, Brian Friel has been fascinated by the theatrical possibilities of the double, the trickster, the shape-changer, the figure in exile from self or community or family " or indeed from language itself. As a playwright, he is intereste…

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