Theatre review: Translations, by Brian Friel, at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin 

This production of the classic tale of cultural clashes in the north-west underlines the mastery of its creator  

Marty Rea and Zara Devlin in Translations,  at the Abbey. Picture: Ros Kavanagh.

★★★★☆ 

The unravelling of certainty, a dawning realisation of fragility, doubts about both the future and the past. Such, so often, is the lot of Brian Friel’s characters, and in Translations, it becomes the lot of an entire culture.