The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: A translator's power to convey truth or distortion is nowhere more deeply considered than in this powerful play, the second in Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel Season. Redcoats of the British Army's Ordnance Survey expedition to Donegal in 1833 engage the English-speaking Irishman, Owen (Cian Barry), to anglicise the place-names, something the locals know is a colonising…
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:13AM on February 18, 2014