Aristocrats, National, London by Michael Billington

National, LondonThe easy word to describe Brian Friel's Aristocrats is "Chekhovian". The decay of a great Georgian house, the decline of a once-powerful Catholic family, the eventual expulsion from this crumbling Eden: all this suggests we are in a transposed Cherry Orchard. But watching Tom Cairns's fine revival at the Lyttelton, I was struck by the quintessential Irishness of Friel's 1979 play.Above all, Friel's pl…

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