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Brian Friel
Communication Cord
by Brian Friel
Synopsis
The setting of the first farce by the author of the celebrated Philadelphia, Here I Come!
and Translations is a remote Donegal peasant cottage which has been converted into a weekend retreat for members of the urban elite.
The traditional elements of the genre combine with a satiric vision to produce a result which is at once hilarious and biting.
Press Reviews
"A sense of place is one of the great gifts Brian Friel brings to playwrighting...in The Communication Cord he marries that gift to his own sense of the absurd."
— London Times
"The moving sentiment of Translations is here exploded...as a symptom of the tourist in his own landscape mentality."
— London Financial Times
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Communication Cord is a comedy play written by Brian Friel and published by Samuel French .
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