This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well as invaluable synopses, biographical essays and chronologies, these guides allow the student much closer to the playwright than ever before!

In About Friel, teacher and playwright Tony Coult has selected an extensive and stimulating range of documents and interview material that explores Friel's life, work and the experiences of his collaborators and fellow artists who put that work on stage, including Patrick Mason, Connall Morrison, Joe Dowling and actors Catherine Byrne and Mark Lambert. If you want to read just one book on Brian Friel and the titanic power of his work, this is it.

About Friel: The Playwright and the Work by Tony Coult is the essential book about Brian Friel, the Irish playwright behind Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Philadelphia, Here I Come!

About the Author
Tony Coult is a writer and teacher of drama. He has written books about the playwrights Edward Bond and Brian Friel, and the art and performance activists Welfare State International. His theatre plays have been performed by young peoples and Theatre-in-Education companies in all parts of England, and his plays for radio have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Education. He writes regularly for eMagazine and runs weekly drama workshops in the Snowsfield Adolescent Unit and Evalina School, both at Guy's Hospital in London

Reviews
"'The strong point of the books in this series is the distinctive voices of the writers, their attitudes and how these are reflected in their plays. Smart chronologies and brief annotated bibliographies give the books a student - friendly feel and all are readable and jargon - free.' Aleks Sierz"



Book Information
ISBN 9780571230105
Author Tony Coult
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 218g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 127mm * 17mm