{"id":11926,"date":"2016-07-02T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2016-07-02T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:05:00","slug":"abbey-theatre-back-at-the-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/07\/abbey-theatre-back-at-the-market-place\/","title":{"rendered":"ABBEY THEATRE BACK  AT THE MARKET PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>It has been a long 16 years since The Abbey Theatre, Dublin visited The Market Place Theatre and now they are back with Frank McGuiness\u2019 powerful portrayal of mortality, love and loss, \u2018Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme\u2019.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/press.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-11927\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/press-1017x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>On 1 July 1916, the 36th Ulster Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The Battle of the Somme. One hundred years on, the Abbey Theatre presents this major new co-production directed by Headlong\u2019s Artistic Director, Jeremy Herrin. In the extraordinary circumstances of World War 1, eight ordinary men are changed, changed utterly. This iconic war play by Frank McGuinness is a powerful portrayal of mortality, love and loss.<\/p>\n<p>Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme will be staged at Armagh\u2019s Market Place Theatre on Saturday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> July at 8pm. Tickets are priced \u00a320 each.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all performances can be booked through the Box Office on [028] 3752 1821, or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplacearmagh.com\">www.marketplacearmagh.com<\/a> And to keep up-to-date with the latest news at the Market Place Theatre, you can follow us on Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh\">www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh<\/a>) and Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh\">www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh<\/a>) where you will find all the latest information, special offers and video previews.<\/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>It has been a long 16 years since The Abbey Theatre, Dublin visited The Market Place Theatre and now they are back with Frank McGuiness\u2019 powerful portrayal of mortality, love and loss, \u2018Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme\u2019. On 1 July 1916, the 36th Ulster Division took part in one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/07\/abbey-theatre-back-at-the-market-place\/\">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\/11926"}],"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=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11928,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}