Field Day

In 1980 SH formed a close association with Brian Friel 's and Stephen Rea 's new theatre company Field Day . The original goal of this company, to stage contemporary plays outside the commercial theatre...

SH 's poem Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish appeared in print in Dublin through Field Day . It renders into English the medieval Irish Buile Shuibhne, through the intermediary of J. G. O'Keeffe

SH 's first play, a rendering from ancient Greek of Philoctetes by Sophocles , titled The Cure at Troy, reached print after being produced and taken on tour by the theatre company Field Day

During the 1980s and early 1990s SH wrote a number of plays (and also pamphlets) for the theatre company Field Day . In 1992 he had a hand in The Field Day Anthology of Irish...