Companies

Field Day Theatre Company

22 Dufferin Ave, Dublin 8, Co. Dublin

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.

Field Day Theatre Company TEAM

Director	Neil Martin
Director	Stephen Rea
Director	Seamus Deane
Company Manager	Ciarán Deane

PRODUCTIONS BY Field Day Theatre Company

Half a Glass of Water by David Ireland (The Playhouse 2013)
A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) by Sam Shepard, Sophocles (The Playhouse 2013)
The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre by Thomas Kilroy ( 1991)
The Cure At Troy by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles ( 1990)
Saint Oscar by Terry Eagleton ( 1989)
Making History by Brian Friel ( 1988)
Pentecost by Stewart Parker ( 1987)
Double Cross by Thomas Kilroy ( 1986)
The Riot Act by Tom Paulin, Sophocles ( 1984)
High Time by Derek Mahon, Molière ( 1984)