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...
Publishing
Seamus Heaney
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
Textual Production
Seamus Heaney
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
Textual Production
Seamus Heaney
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...
Timeline
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Texts
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. Field Day, 1983.
Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy. Field Day, 1990.
