Translations, by Brian Friel, was presented at the Belltable Arts Centre
from the 31st October to the 5th November 1983, and on the 12th and 13th February 1984
Directed by Nick Browne
Cast
Manus
Michael Kearney
Sara
Catherine Furey
Jimmy Jack
Claude Byrne
Maire
Bernie Fitzgerald
Doalty
John Downes
Bridget
Barbara Clinton
Hugh
Jim Keyes
Owen
Tom Cosgrave
Captain Lancey
Hugh Mason Fennell
Lieutenant Yolland
Tim Hall
Production Team
Director
Nick Browne
Production Assistant
Kay Walsh
Stage Manager
Brenda Clancy
Setting
Peter Kennedy
Lighting
Gerard Meagher
Set Construction Assistants
Paddy Madden, Ger Sheehan, Seamus Walsh, Brendan Hayes, Brenda Clancy, Kitty Garry, Michael Kearney and John Walsh
Music Advisor
Claude Byrne
Played By
Joan O'Reilly
Properties
Marie Heffernan
Continuity
Ann Meaney, Ann Mullarkey
Wardrobe Mistress
Joan Carroll
Front of House
Kitty Garry, Emily Keyes, Joan Carroll, Brendan Clinton
Programme Coordinator
Phyllis Clinton
Photographs
Noel Gavin
Publicity
Michael Kearney, John McLoughlin, Brendan Clinton, Noel Gavin
Some Pictures from the Production
Down Memory Lane - Limerick Leader - Saturday November 1st, 2003
20 Years Ago - RAPTUROUS OVATION FOR LOCAL GROUP
TRANSLATIONS by Brian Friel, which is on this week at the Belltable Arts Centre, in a Quarry Players presentation, is about how the English language was imposed on the Gaelic speaking peasantry of Ireland, in the years immediately preceding the terrible Great Famine of the 1840s. Friel emotively shows the agonising cultural shock, suffered by the Gaelic speaking peasantry at their deprivation of their rich heritage. In Friel's scenario, human emotions and humour are included to make Translations a gripping play.
