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pardonmywritings's review
5.0
Brian Friel strikes again! This play was short (two acts in fact!) but it was still haunting and left me feeling the eerie calm after a bloody battle.
Freedom of the city was about three archetypal characters during the most intense year of the Irish Troubles, 1972. Its Bloody Sunday. Three participants of an illegal yet peaceful protest stumble across the Mayor's Guildhall and find refuge there. Except the play opens with their deaths and what follows is a troubling account of the protesters' last moments and an enquiry into the British soldiers' violent response.
The translations was my first and favourite play by Friel. Now this is a second and I want to read more by him.
Freedom of the city was about three archetypal characters during the most intense year of the Irish Troubles, 1972. Its Bloody Sunday. Three participants of an illegal yet peaceful protest stumble across the Mayor's Guildhall and find refuge there. Except the play opens with their deaths and what follows is a troubling account of the protesters' last moments and an enquiry into the British soldiers' violent response.
The translations was my first and favourite play by Friel. Now this is a second and I want to read more by him.
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