1956-02-20

Performance Date(s): 
Monday, February 20, 1956
Tuesday, February 21, 1956
Wednesday, February 22, 1956
Thursday, February 23, 1956
Friday, February 24, 1956
Saturday, February 25, 1956
Known Number of Performances: 
6
Programme Text: 

ABBEY THEATRE DUBLIN
Playing at THE QUEEN’S THEATRE
Pending Rebuilding and Enlargement of the Abbey

Monday, 20th February, 1956, and following nights at 8

First Production of
JUDGEMENT ON JAMES O’NEILL
A Play by Francis MacManus
[…]

THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET
A Sermon in Crude Melodrama by Bernard Shaw
[…]

There will be an Interval of Fifteen Minutes between the Two Plays
[…]

ORCHESTRA
The Orchestra, under the direction of John Reidy, Mus., Bac., will perform the following selections:
Overture Olynthiac Reidy
Il Seraglio Mozart
Thomas Moore Suite Reidy
[…]

View the cast and creative personnel for this performance on the Abbey Archive: 

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/3589
http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/3590

Location of original programme: 

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 55/1956

View this programmes' parent collection on the Concert Programmes Database: 

http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/8209

Musical Director(s): 
Ó Riada, Seán (1931-1971)
Composer(s): 
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Ó Riada, Seán (1931-1971)
Musical Work(s): 
Entführung aus dem Serail, Die. Overture
Olynthiac
Thomas Moore
Playwright(s): 
MacManus, Francis (1909–1965)
Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950)
Theatrical Work(s): 
Judgement of James O'Neill, The
Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, The
Genre(s): 
English drama -- Irish authors -- 20th century
Operas -- Excerpts
Orchestral music
Overtures (Orchestra)
Suites (Orchestra)
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