Brian Dennehy to Star in The Field in Dublin, Joe Dowling to Direct

Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy will star in John B. Keane’s The Field, to premiere at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre, January 13 – February 12. The production, to be directed by Joe Dowling, will then play limited engagements at INEC in Killarney, running February 15-17, and the Royal Theatre in Castlebar (February 24-26).

The play is based on the true story of the 1959 murder of Moss Moore, a bachelor farmer. His neighbor, Dan Foley, with whom Moore had a long-standing dispute over a right of way, was believed to have committed the murder. Foley’s family denied the charge and no one was ever brought to justice.

Dennehy won Tony Awards for Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Death of a Salesman. Among his other stage credits are Desire Under the Elms on Broadway and a double bill of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

Dowling has been the artistic director of the Tony award-winning Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis since 1995. Beyond the many productions he has staged for this company, he has directed such pieces as Philadelphia, Here I Come!, London Assurance, Tartuffe and Othello in New York.