of Ireland' Festival. The company produced work by writers Desmond Hogan, Leigh Jackson (who wrote a specially commissioned play about Erskine Childers, English author, turned Irish patriot), James McKenna, James Pettifer and Bryan MacMahon. Actors like Brid Brennan, Liam Neeson, Michael Loughnan, John O'Toole, Patch Connolly, David Haig, Robert O'Mahoney and Kevin Wallace were among those who worked for the company. Green Fields and Far Away received an Irish Post Award for its work in 1981 and an insightful documentary film about the company, directed by John Lynch, was transmitted on RTÉ. Live Theatre Company Newcastle and The Group During the 80s, he also worked as artistic director of Live Theatre Company, Newcastle, England where he expanded the repertoire to include Graham Reid's The Death of Humpty Dumpty, a powerful play about how a Belfast family deals with a father becoming a paraplegic as a result of sectarian violence. Later, during the same period, he also founded The Group with actor Tim Woodward. The company presented a series of rarely performed European and American plays in London fringe venues. The work included plays by Luigi Pirandello, Ernst Toller, Fernando Arrabal, Michel De Ghelderode and Howard Fast. John McEnery, Ray Winstone, Catherine Harrison, Mark Drewry and Tim Woodward were among those actors who performed for the company. The Young Vic Between productions for The Group, he also directed the revival of Tom Kempinski's play about soldiers in Northern Ireland – Flashpoint at The Young Vic. Lyric Theatre Belfast From 1988 to 1991, Roland Jaquarello was artistic director of The Lyric Theatre Belfast. During his tenure, four new plays by Robin Glendinning, Christina Reid, John McLelland and Robert Ellison were produced. There was also the premiere of a 'glasnost' play Threshold by Alexei Dudarev which was directed and designed by a visiting Belarusian team. During this time, The Lyric Theatre also visited The Glasgow Mayfest with his production of Sam Thompson's Over The Bridge, a play about sectarianism in the Belfast shipyards. They also visited The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Norway with Ghosts and instigated a new Summer Festival presenting work by international writers such as Václav Havel and the Argentinian playwright Eduardo Pavlovsky. Innovative classical revivals of Sean O' Casey's The Plough and the Stars, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest with Conleth Hill as Algernon and J. M. Synge's 'The Playboy of the Western World' were also produced.