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BRIAN FRIEL Photograph taken by Myles Byrne
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Two short, complementary plays, Winners and Losers, are contained in Lovers.

In the first, the lovers are a young couple preparing for their final school exams and their imminent wedding. The girl is pregnant. Although they promise each other happiness, their deaths by drowning save them from a more likely destiny.

In the second play, the lovers are older, but their passion, at first, is no less real. It is their marriage that brings its share of compromises and unhappiness.

These plays combine to suggest 'the fallible hopes and disenchantments of the varieties of love' (D E S Maxwell). They have become perennial favourites with drama companies and audiences all over the world.


LOVERS (Winners and Losers)  cover art by Basil Blackshaw

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ARISTOCRATS    A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY    CRYSTAL AND FOX    FAITH HEALER    GIVE ME YOUR ANSWER, DO!   
LIVING QUARTERS   THE LONDON VERTIGO

MOLLY SWEENEY    PERFORMANCES - cover - by Basil Blackshaw    SELECTED STORIES    THE COMMUNICATION CORD    THE ENEMY WITHIN    THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY    THE GENTLE ISLAND   THE LOVES OF CASS McGUIRE

THREE SISTERS    THE YALTA GAME    UNCLE VANYA    VOLUNTEERS    WONDERFUL TENNESSEE    THREE PLAYS AFTER    THE HOME PLACE   HEDDA GABLER