Brian Friel: Brian Friel Plays 1 [2001] paperback ZFTRA Will our heroes survive

Will our heroes survive

For over three decades

once a lovely town

Every story has two sides

inevitable climax

Brian Friel: Brian Friel Plays 1 [2001] paperback ZFTRA Will our heroes surviveWith the production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964, Brian Friel established his claim to be the true heir of such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, O'Casey and Beckett. Since then his work has consistently demonstrated that his strength is an equal awareness of the conditions of individual lives and the historical and political forces affecting them. The plays in this first volume (Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City,