The Field

Field, The

    Author: John B. Keane

    First Performance: 1965, Dublin

    Published: 1966

    Genre: Trag. in 3 acts

    Setting: Bar and lane, south-west Ireland, 1960s

    Cast: 10m, 3f

Maggie Butler comes to Mick Flanagan's bar in the small village of Carraigthomond. asking him to auction her field for her. The field is let for grazing to Thady (‘Bull’) McCabe, a local farmer, who will be keen to buy the field since it borders his land. Bull hopes to get the land cheap, since he paid rent on it for five years and tended the field. He will not allow any locals to bid against him and intends to frighten off any outsiders; so he bribes Mick to accept his bid. The next day, a stranger arrives in the bar: William Dee from Galway, newly returned from England, is looking for some land to use as a site from which to sell concrete...

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