Barbarian Productions are delighted to announce their upcoming production of Brian Friel's Translations at the Keble O'Reilly in 3rd week, Trinity Term 2010...
In 1833, the rural, Gaelic-speaking township of Baile Baeg in Co. Donegal, Ireland, is in for a dramatic upset to its everyday affairs: a British cartographic expedition, headed by the domineering Captain Lancey of the Royal Engineers, is putting together a new map of the Province. ‘Translations’ brilliantly presents the flashpoint of cross-cultural encounters, blending intense personal drama with a kaleidoscopic overview of the fraught history of Anglo-Irish relations. In the strained relationships between lovers, siblings and whole national spheres, the audience are confronted with a timeless testing of loyalty, identity, collective memory and personal freedom through the scope of a community caught halfway between absurdity and Arcadia.
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- Barbarian Productions
- Barabarian Productions is a student theatre production company based at the University of Oxford. Our name comes from Brian Friel's quote from Ovid in his play 'Translations', "barbarus hic ego sum quia non intellegor ulli" - "I am a barbarian in this place because I am not understood by anyone." We are devoted to humorous, fun, character-driven theatre.
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