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

THE LONDON VERTIGO    MOLLY SWEENEY - cover by Basil Blackshaw    PERFORMANCES    SELECTED STORIES    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
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