{"id":190834,"date":"2025-09-30T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/30\/irelands-iconic-play-translations-hits-dakar-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:01:26","slug":"irelands-iconic-play-translations-hits-dakar-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/30\/irelands-iconic-play-translations-hits-dakar-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&rsquo;s iconic play &lsquo;Translations&rsquo; hits Dakar stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Ireland, Brian Friel\u2019s Translations is one of the country\u2019s most celebrated plays.Themes of linguistic imperialism, colonial power, and identity run throughout and now  for the first time in West Africa, Translations is premiering in Dakar with a Senegalese cast at a moment when France\u2019s colonial legacy is being increasingly rejected, and the parallels feel striking. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent Caitlin Kelly.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ireland, Brian Friel\u2019s Translations is one of the country\u2019s most celebrated plays.Themes of linguistic imperialism, colonial power, and identity run throughout and now for the first time in West Africa, Translations is premiering in Dakar with a Senegalese cast at a moment when France\u2019s colonial legacy is being increasingly rejected, and the parallels feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-190834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}