Once a seminarian at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, the playwright Brian Friel (1929-2015) left priesthood training, and, ultimately, Catholicism. But his plays are deeply marked by his birth faith, routinely featuring a priest or a nun. Aristocrats (1979) has one of each.
23 August 2018, The Tablet
Aristocrats at the Donmar shows Brian Friel's enduring legacy
Aisling Loftus and David Dawson
Photo: Johan Persson
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