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Brian Friel and Field Day
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When Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea formed the Field Day Theatre Company to stage Friel’sTranslationsin 1980, they created a company arguably more conscious of its own symbolic value, and its own place in history, than any since the Abbey. Field Day soon developed into a wider cultural enterprise, playing a significant role in setting the terms of cultural debate in the 1980s, for which it was both vigorously supported and sharply criticized. The terms of this debate shaped the response to Field Day’s theatrical productions: Friel’sTranslationsand its companion piece,The Communication Cord, as well as key works by other writers, notably Thomas Kilroy’sDouble Crossand Stewart Parker’sPentecost. Drawing extensively on manuscript materials that have only recently entered the public domain, the Field Day initiative and Friel’s role in it are the subject of this chapter.
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When Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea formed the Field Day Theatre Company to stage Friel’sTranslationsin 1980, they created a company arguably more conscious of its own symbolic value, and its own place in history, than any since the Abbey.
Field Day soon developed into a wider cultural enterprise, playing a significant role in setting the terms of cultural debate in the 1980s, for which it was both vigorously supported and sharply criticized.
The terms of this debate shaped the response to Field Day’s theatrical productions: Friel’sTranslationsand its companion piece,The Communication Cord, as well as key works by other writers, notably Thomas Kilroy’sDouble Crossand Stewart Parker’sPentecost.
Drawing extensively on manuscript materials that have only recently entered the public domain, the Field Day initiative and Friel’s role in it are the subject of this chapter.
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