Translations

By Brian Friel

Directed by Doug Weaver
Starring guest artist Kip Niven
Scenic and Costume Design by Nicholas Kostner
Diction Coaching by Paul Meier

: Guest Artist: Kip Niven

October 5, 2007 - 7:30 p.m. - Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 6, 2007 - 7:30 p.m. - Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 7, 2007 - 2:30 p.m. - Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 18, 2007 - 7:30 p.m. - Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 19, 2007 - 7:30 p.m. - Crafton-Preyer Theatre
October 20, 2007 - 7:30 p.m. - Crafton-Preyer Theatre

First produced in Derry, Ireland, in 1980, Translations is a play about language and a showcase for our students? dialect skills. A quiet ensemble drama set in rural Ireland in 1833, it explores the troubled lives of characters struggling to adjust to the shifting dynamics of the world around them, which is undergoing quiet, but radical changes as the hard fist of British regulation seeks to impose itself on local tradition. The difference in language, which seems a barrier that cannot be broken, eventually is overcome as loyalties move from English/Irish to personal relationships. Friel?s play is delicate with artful narrative and a lyrical voice steeped in the lusty idioms of rural Ireland.

Click here for Irish and English names, terms, and idioms (pdf file, mp3 file)
Click here for Latin and Greek text (pdf file, mp3 file)
IDEA (International Dialects of English Archive) website

Character	Cast Member
Hugh	Kip Niven
Manus	Carter Royce Waite
Jimmy Jack	Alex Haynes
Doalty	Brian Patrick Ervin
Yolland	Erik LaPointe
Owen	Jonathan Foster Matteson
Lancey	Adam Luke
Maire	Hilary Kelman
Bridgett	Courtney Schweitzer
Sarah	Cassidy Kirch