Don't anticipate the ending Creative encounters with the Brian Friel Papers
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“So [the] play should grow in joyousness”
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Mixed interview, extract 3

Zosia Kuczyńska, Jessie Keenan, and Robbie Blake talk about their experiences of accessing Friel’s archives at the National Library of Ireland and how their thinking around archives has changed over the course of the project.
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The Creative Process

Jessie Keenan notes, 2

In this extract from Jessie Keenan’s project notes, Jessie is considering ideas that emerged from group discussions.
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The Creative Process

Running the Ending, UCD Humanities Institute

This collection of video clips is taken from the first full recordings of Robbie Blake’s ‘Running the ending’ filmed in and around the UCD Humanities Institute on 12 May 2019.
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The Creative Process

Dance House, 11 August 2020

In this recording, Jessie Keenan teaches dancers Marion Cronin, Lucia Kickham, and Sarah Ryan the first part of a dance phrase. This phrase was taken from footage of Jessie rehearsing a live dance improvisation to audio she recorded in response to the question ‘So what is surfacing?’, adapted from a phrase written by Brian Friel during the composition process for Dancing at Lughnasa (1990). 
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The Creative Process

Belfast Book Festival Trailer

A key phase in the development of ‘Don’t anticipate the ending’ was the showcasing of work-in-progress. This is a trailer for an illustrated talk at the Belfast Book Festival 2019, during which Friel scholar Zosia Kuczynska spoke about the process of creating new work by Jessie Keenan and Robbie Blake from creative encounters with the Brian Friel Papers.
“Dance as memory – dance as dream-memory, dance as substitute for language, dance as worship.” – Brian Friel
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Explore About the project Brian Friel (1929-2015) The artists Index Back to MoLI
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Don't anticipate the ending Creative encounters with the Brian Friel Papers

This exhibition is an archive of an archive; and like all good archives, there is no right way to navigate it. Keep clicking on the things that interest you, and don’t worry if you get a little lost a long the way. If you do want to find your way back, check out the index in the menu.

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Presented in partnership with the National Library of Ireland