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Carriages, balls, receptions, weddings,...

Eamon

Aristocrats

Brian Friel

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
A large country house in Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland, 1970s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Carriages, balls, receptions, weddings, christenings, feasts, deaths, trips to Rome, musical evenings, tennis--that’s the mythology I was nurtured on all my life, day after day, year after year--the life of the ‘quality’--that’s how she pronounces it, with a flat ‘a’.
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‘May God and His holy mother forgive you, you dirty-mouthed upstart!’ (laughs) Wasn’t that an interesting response. As we say about here: Now you’re an educated man, Professor--what do you make of that response?

Brian Friel. Aristocrats. The Gallery Press, 1990. Pp.38-39.

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