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1957-08-19

Performance Date(s): 
Monday, August 19, 1957
Wednesday, August 21, 1957
Friday, August 23, 1957
Known Number of Performances: 
3
Programme Text: 

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

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 19th, 21st and 23rd August, 1957, at 8

THE FAR-OFF HILLS
A Comedy in Three Acts by Lennox Robinson
[…]
There will be Intervals of Ten Minutes between the Acts

ORCHESTRA
The Orchestra, under the direction of John Reidy, Mus., Bac., will perform the following selections:
Overture Overture Alcestis Gluck
1st Interval A Somerset Rhapsody Gustav Holst
2nd Interval Ceol Gaolach Reidy

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

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/3641

Location of original programme: 

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 56/1957

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): 
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von (1714-1787)
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Ó Riada, Seán (1931-1971)
Musical Work(s): 
Alceste. Overture
Somerset rhapsody, A
Playwright(s): 
Robinson, Lennox (1886-1958)
Theatrical Work(s): 
Far-off hills, The
Genre(s): 
English drama (Comedy)
English drama -- Irish authors -- 20th century
Folk music -- Ireland
Operas -- Excerpts
Orchestral music
Overtures (Orchestra)
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