Dowling to direct Dennehy in Ireland

Photo by Ann Marsden

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In Ireland, Dowling will work with Brian Dennehy in Keane's award-winning play. The Field is based on the true story of the 1959 murder of Moss Moore, possibly by his neighbor, with whom Moore had a longstanding right-of-way dispute.

Dowling, of course, built his career in his native Ireland, working as the artistic director of the Abbey Theatre and the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. The Field will open January 13 and run through February at the Olympia Theatre.

Dowling's next directing effort at the Guthrie will be Arsenic and Old Lace, opening in April.