Brian Friel’s enthralling Irish drama TRANSLATIONS is set in the fictional village of Baile Beag (Ballybeg) in 19th-century Ireland, where the English army is mapping the area and renaming Gaelic place names in English, symbolizing the encroaching British cultural imperialism. Director Joe S. Feldman brings this play to life with actors James Cady, Michelle Charisse, Graydon Clarke, Rachel Foster, Brian M. Haney, Myles Hughes, Caitlin Kelly, Parker Owen, Philip J. Shortell and Dave Yakubik. Friel has said that TRANSLATIONS is "a play about language and only about language", but it explores colonization, language, and identity. Mr. Feldman has been a devotee of Brian Friel’s writing for decades. “To me, he is the greatest Irish playwright of the 20th century. From his pen we get Dancing at Lughnasa, Wonderful Tennessee, Molly Sweeney and this masterpiece. Friel weaves his spell with soaring poetics, sharply wrought characters and gripping drama. Not least. And certainly most, TRANSLATIONS contains one of the most profoundly beautiful love scenes in all the English canon. Friel leaves our hearts throbbing and breathless.”