ARISTOCRATS

by Brian Friel

2 August 2018 – 22 September 2018

★★★★
‘Lyndsey Turner directs a beautiful revival of Brian Friel’s drama”
Time Out

★★★★
‘Turner’s direction is elegant and eloquent… Her compelling, abstract, sharp-edged staging is like a lucid dream, acted by a cast who beautifully capture the cadences and rhythms of familial interaction’
Times

★★★★
‘Lyndsey Turner… offers again here a work of exquisite emotional detail’
Evening Standard

Ballybeg Hall once played host to grand balls, musical evenings, tennis parties: its rooms busy, bursting with painters, poets and politicians. And presiding over all of it, the imposing figure of Judge O’Donnell.

Now, on the eve of a wedding, the O’Donnell children return to their ancestral home to find that the rot has set in.

Lyndsey Turner returns to the Donmar following Faith Healer and Philadelphia, Here I Come! to direct Brian Friel’s haunting play about a generation whose past threatens to obliterate its future.

Production photography by Johan Persson

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