Bernard Farrell

Bernard Farrell
Born	1941 Sandycove, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Occupation	Playwright
Nationality	Ireland
Alma mater	CBC Monkstown
Notable works	I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell. The Last Apache Reunion
Notable awards	Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. John B. Keane Lifetime Achievement Award. The Writers' Guild of Ireland Zebbie Award.

Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. John B. Keane Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bernard Farrell (born 1941) is an Irish dramatist, whose contemporary comedies – both light and dark – have been described as "well-wrought, cleverly shaped with a keen sense of absurdity" and as "dark and dangerous comedy in which characters are poised on the knife-edge between hilarious absurdity and hysterical breakdown". For the Abbey Theatre, he has served as a Writer-In-Association, as an Advisory Council member, and as a Board Director. He lives in Greystones, Co. Wicklow.

Born in Sandycove, Co. Dublin. Both his parents were passionate about the theatre and his childhood was filled with attending plays. Following school at CBC Monkstown and further education at People's College Ballsbridge he worked for Sealink until 1980, when he resigned to write full-time for the theatre. Most of his 21-stage plays have been premiered at either the Abbey Theatre or the Gate Theatre in Dublin or at Red Kettle Theatre in Waterford. These include I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell (1979), Canaries (1980), All in Favour Said No! (1981), All The Way Back (1985), Say Cheese (1987), Forty-Four Sycamore (1992), The Last Apache Reunion (1993), Happy Birthday Dear Alice (1994), Stella By Starlight (1997), Kevin's Bed (1998), The Spirit of Annie Ross (1999), Lovers at Versailles (2002), Many Happy Returns (2005) The Verdi Girls (2007), Wallace, Balfe And Mr. Bunn (2009) and Bookworms which premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 2010 and was revived there in 2012.

Many of his stage plays are in translation and have been performed extensively in North America, Europe and Australia

I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell was Farrell's first stage play and is considered to be among his best. It was first performed in the Abbey Theatre in 1979, starring a young Liam Neeson as Roger in one of his first roles.

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