1926-12-07

Performance Date(s): 
Tuesday, December 7, 1926
Wednesday, December 8, 1926
Thursday, December 9, 1926
Friday, December 10, 1926
Saturday, December 11, 1926
Known Number of Performances: 
6
Programme Text: 

[…]
Tuesday, Dec. 7th 1926, at following nights 8
Matinee, Saturday, at 2.30

FIRST PRODUCTION OF
OEDIPUS THE KING
BY SOPHOCLES
Prose version by W.B. YEATS
[…]

INTERVAL OF FIFTEEN MINUTES

THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET
A Sermon in crude melodrama, by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
[…]

The Orchestra, under the Direction of Dr. J. F. LARCHET, will perform the following selections:
Overture “Alceste” Gluck (1714-1787)
Excerpt, op. 55 “Marcia Funebre – Adagio Assai” Beethoven (1770-1827)

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

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/3104
http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/3105

Location of original programme: 

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 22/1926

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

Musical Director(s): 
Larchet, John F. (1884-1967)
Composer(s): 
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von (1714-1787)
Musical Work(s): 
Alceste. Overture
Symphonies, no. 3, op. 55, E flat major. Selections
Playwright(s): 
Shaw, Bernard (1856-1950)
Sophocles
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) (1865-1939)
Theatrical Work(s): 
King Oedipus
Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, The
Genre(s): 
English drama -- Irish authors -- 20th century
Operas -- Excerpts
Orchestral music
Overtures (Orchestra)
Symphonies -- Excerpts
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