Stephen Rea

…playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea, instigated a new movement both in drama and in cultural politics that sought to undo some of the damage done by partition to modern Irish self-perception and self-representation. Friel, already established as Ireland’s leading playwright, wrote and in 1980 produced Field Day’s landmark…

…1980 Friel cofounded (with actor-director Stephen Rea) the Field Day Theatre Company in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and in 1983 the company began publishing pamphlets, and later anthologies, aimed at the academic community on a wide variety of historical, cultural, and artistic topics. He was elected Saoi of Aosdána, Ireland’s highest…

It starred Stephen Rea, who later appeared in a number of Jordan’s films, and featured a dreamlike use of color and lighting.