{"id":10950,"date":"2016-03-11T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2016-03-11T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:05:47","slug":"legendary-glenroe-star-set-for-theatre-at-the-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/03\/legendary-glenroe-star-set-for-theatre-at-the-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGENDARY GLENROE STAR SET FOR THEATRE AT THE MILL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><em>The Matchmaker<\/em><\/strong> based on the novella \u201cLetters of a County Matchmaker\u201d by John B. Keane one of Ireland\u2019s most celebrated writers, will play at Theatre At The Mill on Thursday 7<sup>th<\/sup> April at 7.45pm.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/press10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-10953\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/press10-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a>The production stars television favorite Mary McEvoy best known for her roles as Biddie in the long running RTE series <strong>Glenroe.<\/strong> Irish Actor and comedian Jon Kenny who was part of the Irish comic duo <em>d\u2019Unbelievables<\/em> with Pat Shortt joins Mary to complete the cast. Kenny is also best known outside Ireland for appearing in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.\u00a0\u00a0 Together they play a myriad of characters in this hilarious and earthy dramatic comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The play follows the efforts of <em>Dicky Mick Dicky O Connor<\/em> to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn.\u00a0 Keane, an avid observer of people and the cultures that bind and create their view of the world uses <em>\u201cThe Matchmaker\u201d<\/em> as an exploration of rural loneliness. Aware that generations of people became masters of their own destinies late in life, and only then began to look for companionship and love, once their duties as minder of aging parents were concluded or they had finally inherited, or were the left over brother or sister.<\/p>\n<p>Using his inimitable way with words and his one sense of \u201cdevilment\u201d and wit, Keane delves into the longings, hungers, fears and foibles of this collection of lonely county people and creates a marvelously colorful world, taking us back to a simpler time, when phones were few and far between and the only web was one left behind by spiders.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for this one night only show, <strong>The Matchmaker<\/strong> on Thursday 7<sup>th<\/sup> April are available from Theatre At The Mill Box Office \u2013 Tel: 028 90 340 202 and online from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreatthemill.com\/\">www.theatreatthemill.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Matchmaker based on the novella \u201cLetters of a County Matchmaker\u201d by John B. Keane one of Ireland\u2019s most celebrated writers, will play at Theatre At The Mill on Thursday 7th April at 7.45pm. The production stars television favorite Mary McEvoy best known for her roles as Biddie in the long running RTE series Glenroe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/03\/legendary-glenroe-star-set-for-theatre-at-the-mill\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10952,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions\/10952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}