Links

Productions

• Roundabout Theatre Company

  • Molly Sweeney (1996)

• National Theatre of Scotland

  • Molly Sweeney: Information (video, gallery, cast, reviews, audience reactions)

  • Resource Pack (pdf file)

• Prospect Theatre Project

  • Molly Sweeney (2009)

• Madrid

  • Trailer Molly Sweeney (2009; video clip, 2:48 min.)

  • Molly Sweeney, de Brian Friel

• Chester Theatre Company

• Curve Theatre

  • A Festival of Friel - Molly Sweeney (2010)

Reviews

• Marvin Carlson, Review, Theatre Journal (1995)

• Vincent Canby, "Seeing, in Brian Friel's Ballybeg" (1996)

• Clive Barnes, "The Failed Friel Festival" (1999)

• Sandy MacDonald, "Sight restored, faith lost in ‘Molly Sweeney’" (2010)

• Alfred Hickling, "Translations/Molly Sweeney - review" (2010)

Oliver Sacks

• "To See and Not See," An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)

• Ira Flatow, "Oliver Sacks Discusses Vision and 'The Mind's Eye'" (2010; audio clip and transcript of interview)

Critical Essays

• David Feeney, "Sighted Renderings of a Non-Visual Aesthetics: Exploring the Interface between Drama and Disability Theory" (2009)

• John C. Kerrigan, "Swimming in Words: Molly Sweeney's Dramatic Form," A Companion to Brian Friel (2002)

• Julia Temple, "The Gift of Sight in Molly Sweeney," A Companion to Brian Friel ( 2002)

• Marc Silverstein, "'With Greedy, Ravenous Eyes': Viewpoint as Vanishing Point in Molly Sweeney" (2002)

• Karen M. Maloney, "Molly Astray: Revisioning Ireland in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney" (2000)

• Karen DeVinny, "Monologue as Dramatic Action in Brian Friel's Faith Healer and Molly Sweeney" (1999)

• Christopher Murray, "Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney and Its Sources: A Postmodern Case Study" (1999)

Brian Friel 

• Brian Friel

• Brian Friel

Interviews

• Mark Fisher, "Interview: Brian Friel - Keeper of the faith" (2009)

Other

• Bibliography: Brian Friel

• The Brian Friel Symposium