Friel’s Irish Home Finds Place in London???
Date: 17 March 2005
The Home Place, the latest play by Irishman
Brian Friel, nominated as a potential “greatest living playwright” in our current
Big Debate, is tipped to transfer to the West End after its current run at Dublin’s Gate Theatre, where it premiered on 1 February 2005. Set in 1878,
Tom Courtenay plays the widowed Christopher Gore, who lives with his son David and the woman they both love, their housekeeper Margaret, in The Lodge in Ballybeg. In the era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher’s English cousin. The premiere production is directed by former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director
Adrian Noble. Friel’s last play in the West End, 2002’s
Afterplay, which starred
Penelope Wilton and
John Hurt, also transferred from the Gate.
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