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The Gut Girls (2010)
Translations (2010)
The Donahue Sisters (2010)
Rhinoceros (2010)
Beckett Shorts (2010)
Crooked (2010)
Belfast Blues (2009)
The Libertine (2009)
Attempts On Her Life (2009)
Everyman (2009)
Crumble Cardia (2008)
This Is Our Youth (2008)
Molly (2008)
Three Penny Opera (2007)
Trojan Women (2007)
Glengary Glengross (2007)
Goon Show (2007)
Almost Stockholm (2007)
The Importance of Shoes (2007)
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2007)
View older shows (2000 - 2006)
Brian Friel Theatre Ticket reservation line 028 9097 1382
Booking Enquires for the Brian Friel Theatre 028 909 75299 (Technical and venue hire enquires only)
School of Languages Literatures and Performing Arts office 028 9097 5363 (Educational enquires only)
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1st - 3rd December 2009
Brian Friel Theatre
Student Show
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'A thoroughly modern portrait of a decadent age, The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys offers us an account of the later life and downfall of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Though he was an accomplished poet, satirist and pornographer, Rochester is better remembered as the notorious 17th Century rake that inspired George Etherege's The Man of Mode.
The Libertine depicts a man at once in his prime and in a state of rapid decay with an insatiable appetite for wine and women, but no longer for life itself. Amidst the crowded theatres, bars and brothels of London, Rochester is the master of excess and obscenity until an encounter with a young actress forces him to reconsider his bitter cynicism and contempt towards humanity.
(If you thought that period dramas were for coffin-dodgers or that your generation came up with casual sex and binge drinking, perhaps it is time to reconsider.)' |
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