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A Month in the Country (Friel)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5f, 7m

Brian Friel, Ivan Turgenev

A Month in the Country
by Brian Friel, after Turgenev

In the introduction, Brian Friel identifies the novelty of Turgenev's drama "where psychological and poetic elements create a theatre of moods and where the action resides in internal emotion and secret turmoil". His lively, comic play describes the …

A Month in the Country (Friel)

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    5f, 7m
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  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
In the introduction, Brian Friel identifies the novelty of Turgenev's drama "where psychological and poetic elements create a theatre of moods and where the action resides in internal emotion and secret turmoil". His lively, comic play describes the course of a passionately eventful summer month in which Natalya, luminous, anguished and possessed by love, is left to recover a measure of happiness after her turbulent disquiet.
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  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Setting A drawing-room, a garden
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Brian Friel

Brian Friel

Brian Friel (1929-2015), largely considered modern Ireland’s leading playwright, was born to a schoolmaster and a postmistress. After working as a teacher in Derry for ten years, he married Anne Morrison and moved to Donegal to begin writing in earnest. His first significant ...

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Ivan Turgenev

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