TRANSLATIONS

Friel's masterpiece, in my opinion. A painfully beautiful, tragic love story of a young North of Ireland woman and a young English Army officer. It is also the tragic story of how England Anglicized our Gaelic family and place names. Oscar Wilde claimed that "England took our lands and left them derilect. We took their language and added new beauty!" That's true, too, and we got a lot of the language and lands back!

At right, Chandler Williams (left) and Susan Lynch in the 2007 revival of "Translations" at the Biltmore Theatre in New York.