The Field
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Opened Jun 1, 2006
Closed Aug 6, 2006
Opened Jun 1, 2006
Closed Aug 6, 2006
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Irish Repertory Theatre presents the American premiere of John B. Keane's The Field, a fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. Bull McCabe, a farmer, has leased four acres of poor land from a widow for five years during which time he nurtured it into prime pasture. Now she wants to sell the land to the highest bidder, and Bull, having invested his time and effort, believes that he has rights to the property. When an "outsider" from England appears on the day of the auction to offer an unusually high price, Bull decides to take justice into his own hands.
The Field takes spectators on a primal journey exploring powerful themes such as tradition, birthright, and obsession for land that is as potent as it is universal. Ciarán O'Reilly directs.
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Making certain that thundering cattle have passage to water is the basis of more than one Western you can name. Usually, the proprietary cattlemen are a violence-prone father and his stupid, sinister sons, while the folks with the water on their land are the peaceable folk. Great upheaval occurs before something or someone happens along to set things right, and it all unfolds on sprawling, gorgeous natural terrain.
Sp one might as well call John B. Keane's agitated play The Field a Western, even though the west in which it takes place is southwest Ireland. As in any of these genre examples, the area of contention here is a plot of land where cattle graze, water is plentiful, and the cattl[...]