External links
- ↑ "CalmView: Overview".
- ↑ "Fathers and Sons - Donmar Warehouse". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
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Fathers and Sons is a 1987 play by the Irish playwright Brian Friel, adapting the 1862 novel of the same name by Ivan Turgenev. It premiered at the Royal National Theatre on 26 June 1987. [1] It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse from 5 June to 26 July 2014. [2]
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