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John B. Keane's THE FIELD

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  • 20-07-2007 9:21pm
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    heartandcrown
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    Heart N Crown Theatre Co.

    Presents

    John B. Keane's

    THE FIELD

    BLACK BOX THEATRE in Galway
    (November 19th - 24th) 2:30pm / 8:30pm
    Booking on 091-569777

    BIRR ARTS CENTRE

    November 9th/10th
    Matinee 10th at 2:30pm
    Matinee Prices 13.50
    Evening Show 16/14euro

    HAWKSWELL THEATRE (SLIGO)

    November 12/13th
    Matinee 13th at 2:30pm
    Matinee Prices 13.50
    Evening Show 15/13euro
    Booking on 0719161519

    GARAGE THEATRE (MONAGHAN)

    November 29/30th
    Matinee 30th
    Matinee Prices 13.50euro
    Evening Show 16/14euro
    Booking on 04781597

    BELLTABLE ARTS CENTRE (LIMERICK)

    November 27th/28th
    Matinee 27/28th
    Evening 28th
    Booking on 061-315871

    The Field is perhaps John B. Keane’s best known play. This powerful play has the 'Bull' McCabe as its central character. 'The Bull' is a tenant farmer with a ferocious temper and an obsession with the field he has been renting from a poor widow. After years of backbreaking toil, McCabe has transformed the field from three acres of rocky wasteland into a lush green pasture. But when the widow decides to put the property up for auction without considering his work, an outraged McCabe is determined to buy it at all costs. Unfortunately, there is another interested party, an English man whose plans for the field include paving it over and turning it into a cement block factory. 'The Bull' cannot stand to see the land he so deeply loves slipping away from him. He decides to deal with the situation in the only way he knows and his actions have tragic consequences. The play shows the after affects on 'The Bull' and those around him.

    This show is also being done for Leaving Cert students for next year.

    The Author

    John B. Keane

    John B. Keane was born in Listowel, Co Kerry in 1928. He published forty-six works, but is best known for his plays which inlcude Sive; Sharon’s Grave; The Man from Clare; The Year of the Hiker; The Field (which was adapted as a film of the same name); Many Young Men of Twenty; Big Maggie; Moll; The Crazy Wall; The Buds of Ballybunion; The Chastitute; and Faoiseamh.His novels are The Bodhran Makers; Durango; The Contractors; A High Meadow.
    He has published many books of humourous essays and letters, including Letters of a T.D.; Love Bites, and Owl Sandwiches. He has published one book in Irish, Dan Pheadí Aíndí. His biography is Man of the Triple Name. He is a former president of Irish P.E.N., an Honorary Life Member of the Royal Dublin Society, a D.Litt (hon.causa) Trinity College Dublin; Hon. Doc. Fine Arts, Marymount Manhattan College. A founder member of the Society of Irish Playwrights, he was a member of Aosdána. He lived in Listowel, Co Kerry, and died in May 2002 (RIP).


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