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Sunday, 28th December, 1941, at 8 p.m.
FIRST PRODUCTION OF
BLACK FAST
A Poetic Farce by AUSTIN CLARKE
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THE FIDDLER’S HOUSE
A Play in Three Acts by PADRAIG COLUM
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CONN HOURICAN, a fiddler W. O’Gorman
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ORCHESTRA
F. M. MAY, Mus. Bac., Director Piano
ALICE McCARTHY Violin
DOROTHY CLIFTON ‘Cello
The Orchestra will perform the following selections:
Overture Oberon Weber (1786 1826) [sic]
Excerpt Trio in G Minor, Op. 15 Smetana (1824-1884)
Five Irish Airs The Blackbird She Moved Thro’ the Fair arr. Herbert Hughes The Lover’s Curse The Green Woods of Truagh arr. Julia Gray My Love’s and Arbutus arr. Redman
There will be an Interval of Fifteen Minutes between the Plays, and an Interval of Ten Minutes between Acts Two and Three of “The Fiddler’s House.”
Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 40/1941