1938-12-12

Performance Date(s):

Monday, December 12, 1938

Tuesday, December 13, 1938

Wednesday, December 14, 1938

Thursday, December 15, 1938

Friday, December 16, 1938

Saturday, December 17, 1938

Known Number of Performances:

Programme Text:

[…]
Monday, 12th December, 1938, and following nights at 8.15.

THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN
A Play in Two Acts, by SEAN O’CASEY
[…]

There will be an Interval of Eight Minutes between the Acts of “The Shadow of a Gunman” and an Interval of Fifteen Minutes between the Plays.

First Production of
BAINTIGHEARNA AN GHORTA
(Our Lady of the Famine)
By SÉAMUS DE BHILMOT
(One of the prizewinning plays in the recent Abbey Theatre Gaelic Play Competition).
[…]
The “caoin” supplied by SEÁN Ó TUAMA.
[…]

The Orchestra will perform the following selections:
Overture Titus Mozart (1756-1791)
Irish Airs Set No. 2 arr. Larchet
Fantasia Manon Massenet (1842-1912)

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

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/2466
http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/2467

Location of original programme:

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 37/1938

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

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

Composer(s):

Larchet, John F. (1884-1967)

Massenet, Jules (1842-1912)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)

Musical Work(s):

Clemenza di Tito. Ouverture