Wonderful Tennessee

Past productions

Lyric Players Theatre, Lyric Players Theatre / Lyric Theatre, Belfast 3^rd – 21^st October 2000.
Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse 6^th – 24^th June 2000.
Abbey Theatre Dublin, Noel Pearson, and Shubert Organization Inc, Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Plymouth Theatre, New York (now Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre) 24^th June – 31^st October 1993.

“WONDERFUL TENNESSEE, Brian Friel’s first original play since DANCING AT LUGHNASA, is set – in the present – on the pier in Ballybeg, County Donegal. Three married couples wait for a boatman to arrive to ferry them to Oileán Draíochta, Island of Otherness or Mystery. In the course of a night they talk, sing (the play is laced with songs and music), and tell stories; and what started as an escapade assumes the semblance of a pilgrimage. Gradually, in a beautifully orchestrated and exuberant work, their true relationships and frailties are revealed.” – Gallery Press synopsis

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