Theatre: Aristocrats
First produced in 1979, Brian Friel’s play Aristocrats centres on an august Catholic family. They come together in their old Donegal manor for a wedding that flags an ominous decline in their status and privilege.
This decline is potentially transformed, however, from a portent of doom to a portent of hope, by the death of the family’s ailing patriarch, Judge O’Donnell (John Kavanagh).
