PROMO: 'The Field' at the Denver Vic

Jim Hunt as Bull McCabe in the Denver Victorian Playhouse production of "The Field." Photo Credit: Michael Ensminger. Promotional information by Gloria Shanstrom.

The Denver Victorian Playhouse continues its 2010-2011 Irish season with the regional premiere of “The Field” by Award-winning Irish playwright John B. Keane.  

  

'Bull' McCabe is a tenant farmer with an obsession with the field he has been renting from a poor widow. After years of backbreaking toil, McCabe has transformed the field from three acres of rocky wasteland into a lush green pasture. But when the widow decides to put the property up for auction without considering his work, an outraged McCabe is determined to buy it at all costs. Unfortunately, there is another interested party, an American whose plans for the field include paving it over to provide access to the limestone-rich hills beyond.

Keane based the story on the 1959 murder of Moss Moore, a bachelor farmer living in Reamore, County Kerry . Dan Foley, a neighbor with whom Moore had a long-running dispute, was suspected of the murder, but the charges were denied by Foley's family.

The cast includes Jim Hunt (“Bull” McCabe), Abraham Willock (Tadgh McCabe), Josh Hartwell (Bird O’ Donnell), Kendra Crain (Mrs. McCabe), Tim Fishbaugh (Dandy McCabe), Steve Kramer (Mick Flanagan), Paige L. Larson (Maimie Flanagan), Cody Robinson (Leamy Flanagan), Chip Winn Wells (Maggie Butler), Brian Landis Folkins (William Dee), Tyler Collins (Father Murphy), Eric Ross (Sergeant Leahy), Ayden Armstrong (Aoife Flanagan) and Branwen Armstrong (Nelly Flanagan).

 

“The Field” plays Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. through April 2. Tickets are $19.00 and are available by calling 303-433-4343 or online at www.denvervic.com.