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Stanford Summer Theater Companion Course: Brian Friel's Human Comedy (LIT 190)
Often called the Irish Chekhov, Brian Friel is widely regarded as Ireland’s most distinguished living playwright—and its most beloved. Over a fifty-year career, Friel has published dozens of stories and written more than thirty plays that have been performed on stages from Berlin to New York. His work is intensely engaged with Irish social themes—history, politics, class, and language—but, as Friel himself has said, these are the "decor"; the core is love, affection, and loyalty. Like Chekhov, Friel manages to be compassionate without ever being sentimental; his dialogue is funny and smart; and there is always singing.
This course will be wrapped around Stanford Summer Theater’s 10th-anniversary season dedicated to Friel. As a class, we will attend a film screening of Dancing in Lughnasa, go to rehearsals and performances of Translations and Faith Healer, meet with the directors and cast, and participate in the Saturday symposium on Friel (with Irish lunch included). Readings will situate Friel in relation to his great predecessors—Wilde, Yeats, Synge, and Beckett—and his closest contemporaries, especially Seamus Heaney.
Class meetings: Wednesdays, July 2 - 30, 7:00 - 8:50 pm
Performances: Thursdays, July 10 and 31, 8:00 pm
Film Screening: Monday, July 21, 7:00 pm
Symposium: Saturday, July 19, 9:30 am - 4:30pm
For more information about the Summer Theater's season, "Brian Friel (And Other Irish Voices)," please click here.
For specific information on each event, click on the following links:
* Friel in Context
* Friel on Stage: Translations
* Friel on Stage: Faith Healer
* Friel and Others on Film
Charles Junkerman
Associate Provost; Dean of Continuing Studies
Charles Junkerman received a PhD in comparative
literature from UC Berkeley, and has been at Stanford
since 1983. He teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century
American and English literature with special interests
in Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Yeats.
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Course Details
Wednesdays
7:00 - 8:50 pm
5 weeks
Jul 2 - Jul 30
1 unit $200
Drop by: Jul 15
Please see the course schedule underneath the course description.
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