{"product_id":"9780571309870","title":"Plays Three: Three Sisters; A Month in the Country; Uncle Vanya; The Yalta Game; The Bear; Afterplay; Performances; The Home Place; Hedda Gabler","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: \u003ci\u003ePerformances\u003c\/i\u003e, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leo? Janácek; and \u003ci\u003eThe Home Place,\u003c\/i\u003e set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite versions of \u003ci\u003eThree Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUncle Vanya\u003c\/i\u003e, of Ibsen's \u003ci\u003eHedda Gabler \u003c\/i\u003eand of Turgenev's\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Month in the Country.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePerformances\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e'A minor work the way Thomas Mann's \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e or Beckett's \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friel's masterly \u003ci\u003eTranslations\u003c\/i\u003e while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHedda Gabler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Across the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a 'new version', but something altogether larger.' \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106540110064,"sku":"9780571309870","price":29.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571309870_p0.jpg?v=1763719039","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571309870","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}