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Companies

Field Day Theatre Company

OVERVIEW

  • Description

    Field Day began in 1980 in Derry as a cultural and intellectual response to the political crisis in Northern Ireland. Playwright Brian Friel and actor/director Stephen Rea set out to identify and develop a new audience for theatre. Friel’s critically acclaimed Translations was the first of many Field Day plays to show at Derry’s Guildhall before travelling throughout Ireland and the world; these included world premieres of Friel’s The Communication Cord (1982) and Making History (1988), Derek Mahon’s High Time (1984), Tom Paulin’s The Riot Act (1984), Thomas Kilroy’s Double Cross (1986), Stewart Parker’s Pentecost (1987), Terry Eagleton’s Saint Oscar (1989) and Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy (1990). In 2012, Field Day returned to theatre production in Derry after a 16-year hiatus with world premieres of new plays by up-and-coming Northern Irish playwrights Clare Dwyer Hogg and David Ireland, starring and directed by Stephen Rea. In December 2013, as part of the Londonderry/Derry City of Culture celebrations, Field Day staged a world premiere of A Particle of Dread: Oedipus Variations, a new play by Sam Shepard, which then travelled to Signature Theater, New York, from October 2014 to January 2015.

    • Address

    22 Dufferin Ave, Dublin 8, Co. Dublin

    Email

    fielddayco@gmail.com

    Website

    fieldday.ie

    Director

    Neil Martin

    Director

    Stephen Rea

    Director

    Seamus Deane

    Company Manager

    Ciarán Deane

NEW IRISH PLAYS PRODUCED BY FIELD DAY THEATRE COMPANY

Play Title Playwright
A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) Sam Shepard Sophocles
Double Cross Thomas Kilroy
Half a Glass of Water David Ireland
High Time Derek Mahon Molière
After 'The School For Husbands' by Molière.
Making History Brian Friel
Pentecost Stewart Parker
Saint Oscar Terry Eagleton
The Communication Cord Brian Friel
The Cure At Troy Seamus Heaney Sophocles
After 'Philoctetes' by Sophocles.
The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre Thomas Kilroy
The Riot Act Tom Paulin Sophocles
After 'Antigone' by Sophocles.
Three Sisters Brian Friel Anton Chekhov
A translation of the original play by Anton Chekhov.
Translations Brian Friel