Stephen Rea ❤️ and how the play ‘Translations’ started - clip from ‘Brian Friel Shy Man - Showman’

Описание: brief clip Stephen Rea ❤️ talking about how the first Field Day play Translations came about 🎭 🎉
with historical footage of him and Brian Friel in 1981.

Translations premiered at the Derry Guildhall in 1980 starring Stephen Rea, Liam Neeson, Ciaran Hinds and others.

this clip is from the new RTE documentary Brian Friel - Shy Man Showman originally broadcast 06-Jan-2022. See below for links to doc.

‘Translations’ was the first play produced by the Field Day Theatre Company
founded by Stephen Rea and Brian Friel in 1980 (the name ‘Field Day’ is an anagram of their surnames ‘Friel Rea’).
This historical footage of Rea and Friel chatting in Friel’s sitting room, is from 1981 (originally from a Channel 4 documentary called ‘Chekhov In Derry’) during which time Field Day was rehearsing ‘Three Sisters’, 🎭 by Chekov, in a new translation by Brian Friel; Stephen Rea directed this play (did not star In It).

RTE Radio Arena podcast 3-Jan-2022 intro and audio clips from the documentary ‘Brian Friel - Shy Man, Showman’ 👉 https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips...

the documentary Brian Friel - Shy Man, Showman (2021) is here
part 1 👉    • Видео  
part 2 👉    • Видео  

further reading/listening:
👉 https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunda...
👉 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/br...
👉 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ob...
👉 https://dublingazette.com/whats-on/tv...
RTE Radio One intro 👉 https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips...
2011 RTE RadioOne interview with Stephen Rea 👉    • Stephen Rea 🥰 2011 radio interview about ‘...  
👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-norther...
👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-nort...
👉 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/br...

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