About the Performance
The Yalta Game
An accountant holidays alone, leaving his wife and family behind in Moscow. While away he meets a young woman and they indulge in a brief affair. Back home they both find themselves obsessed by their encounter and meet again to embark on a self destructive path of duplicity, ecstasy and love.
The Yalta Game is based on a theme in Anton Chekhov's The Lady with the Lapdog. Friel's expressive interpretation turns one of the best short stories ever written into a provocative piece of modern theatre.
'a beautiful and poetic examination of truth and reality' The Australian Stage
Gate | Friel
Brian Friel is Ireland's most popular living playwright. As much a composer of words as a dramatist, he uses a poetic and often surreal style that is both wise and earthy.
Dublin's Gate Theatre has established a unique relationship with Friel and this Festival residency offers the opportunity to see three of his masterworks.
'The Gate Theatre has been an integral part of the success of modern Irish drama... it offers a peerless tribute to the work of Brian Friel' The Age
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