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Aristocrats review unsentimental snapshot of a family in decline by Helen Meany

Abbey theatre, DublinA sensitive revival of Brian Friel's play about a Catholic family in Donegal offers no easy answers to the problems of class and kinThe title of Brian Friel's play from 1979 always had a tinge of irony. The decline of a once-prosperous Catholic family, inhabiting a big house on the edge of a Donegal village, was given a Chekhovian tone by Friel, who has frequently adapted the Russian playwright's…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM on July 10, 2014

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