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4 PLAY: IN THE BORDER COUNTRY
(1991)
List of alternative names
- BORDER COUNTRY
- Copyright date
- 1991
- Production start date
- 19/11/1990
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
- Not available
Library Synopsis
TV film. Set in a rural backdrop on the North-South border of contemporary Ireland and structured around quotations from The Oresteia of Aeschylus. The Atheys and the McQuires live next to each other and nurture a traditional feud. The non-political Margaret Athey is pregnant, her husband Hugh is involved in republican activity, and their teenage children...
Top five credits
- Director
- O'SULLIVAN, Thaddeus
- Production Company
- Channel Four Television Company
- [Production Company]
- Little Bird Company Limited
- Producer
- CAVENDISH, Jonathan
- Associate Producer
- DOOLEN, Jane
Top five cast
- Margaret
- STEVENSON, Juliet
- Helen
- REEVES, Saskia
- Hugh
- McGINLEY, Séan
- Smith
- BEAN, Sean
- McQuire
- McELHINNEY, Ian