Translations

Brian Friel Thursday 23 June – Saturday 13 August The play is staged at the Abbey Theater of Dublin.
It’s late August 1833. At a hedge school in the small Irish speaking village of Baile Beag, the pupils gather for their evening class. They worry about potato blight, gossip about a new baby’s father and make fun of the Royal Engineers from England recently arrived to survey the area.
Cast
• Aaron Monaghan
Manus
• Aoife McMahon
Maire
• Barry Ward
Owen
• Denis Conway
Hugh
• Donal O’Kelly
Jimmy Jack
• Janet Moran
Bridget
• Michael James Ford
Captain Lancey
• Tim Delap
Yolland
• Janice Byrne
Sarah
• Rory Nolan
Doalty
Creative Team
• Brian Friel
Writer
• Conall Morrison
Director
• Naomi Wilkinson
Set design
• Ben Ormerod
Lighting Design
• Joan O’Clery
Costume Design
• Conor Linehan
Composer and Sound Design