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'With The Communication
Cord Brian Friel does more than maintain his reputation as a master playwright. He establishes
himself as one of the most courageous writers: for this new farce is virtually
a send-up of the sentiments so movingly expressed in his own Translations.'
— David Nowlan, The Irish Times
Like Translations, The Communication Cord is set in a seaside cottage in
the remote townland of Ballybeg in County Donegal, though the time is the
present.
Like that masterpiece, it too is preoccupied with language and the effects
of language, and it addresses a characteristic Friel concern.
As Seamus Deane writes, 'the most sterile of illusions is exposed —
that of a heroic past that has dwindled to a most unheroic present'.
Brian Friel's farce is brilliantly orchestrated and choreographed. And
it is constantly hilarious.
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