Translations (Theatre)
Location:Barn Theatre
Time:20:00:00 to 22:30:00
Written by Brian Friel, and directed by Laura Powell Eddy. Plays at the Barn Theatre from 20th – 28th November, 8:00 pm.
A play about language. And love, longing, desire, power, freedom, hate, belonging, despair, loss, hope and knowledge. The setting is a hedge school in County Donegal. It is 1833, just before the potato famine. English soldiers are making the first Ordinance Survey map of the area and changing the Gaelic placenames to English. One of the English soldiers falls in love with the romance and beauty of the landscape and the language of Ireland. He falls in love with an Irishwoman. He disappears…
Tickets are £9.75 and are available from the Campus West box office on 01707 357117, online at www.barntheatre.co.uk, or from the Barn box office (01707 324300) on performance nights.
Barn Theatre, Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, AL8 6ST.
More info:http://www.barntheatre.co.uk