By Brian Friel
Direction David Mealor
With William Allert, Michaela Cantwell, Elena Carapetis, Lizzy Falkland,
Patrick Frost, John Kelly, Andrew Martin, Dominic Pedlar,
Geoff Revell, Stephen Sheehan and Rory Walker
Set and Costume Design Kerry Reid
Lighting Design Geoff Cobham
Music The Audreys
Producer David Mealor

Following its premiere sell-out season in Adelaide, Malthouse Theatre
presents Flying Penguin Productions’ Translations, a captivating story
set in the turbulent Ireland of the 1830s.

In a field near a prohibited Gaelic Hedge School in the town of Baile Beag in
County Donegal, British troops have begun to map and rename the entire
country –reconstructing the local Gaelic language and place names into English
with unforeseen consequences to memory, history, identity and love.

From Brian Friel, Ireland’s greatest living playwright, Translations was recently
nominated by The National Theatre, London’s Board of Review as one of the
25 most significant plays of the twentieth century.

"David Mealor has made a mighty directorial debut. A night of drama to be
savoured… brilliant Theatre." The Sunday Mail, Adelaide

"The beauty and rhythm of a deservedly celebrated piece come shining
through." The Adelaide Advertiser