Recipient of The Tony Award® for Best Play
This is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. The action of the play is told through the memory of the son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him: his mother and four maiden aunts. For the young boy, two disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, and he meets his father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields. From these small events spring the cracks that change the family forever. Widely regarded as Brian Friel’s masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel’s tribute to the spirit and valor of the past