Having a Field Day...again

So the rumours are true about Field Day Theatre Company putting on a new production. It's happening in 2013 for the UK City of Culture. No word yet on what the play will be. Will Brian Friel, one of the founders along with Stephen Rea, write something new? Or should it be a new play from a new voice? There are some strong writers around, David Ireland, Abbi Spallen, Jimmy McAleavey, Dave Duggan? Quotes from Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy which Field Day premiered in 1990 provided the context for the Derry~Londonderry bid. Thirteen years later it's a vastly different cultural landscape. So it'll be interesting to see what play is selected.

It might even make it's way into the discussion on Saturday 2nd October in the Playhouse in Derry. Seamus Deane and Stephen Rea are hosting a workshop "Second time as Farce". I'm told it's to be a review of the work of Field Day. And hopefully a preview of the Field Day future.