Translations

• 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

Ticket Prices

• Public: $16
• Senior Citizens & KU Faculty/Staff: $15
• All Students: $10

Costume Renderings

Bridget

Doalty

Hugh

Jimmy

Lancey

Maire

Owen