{"id":12501,"date":"2016-09-15T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=12501"},"modified":"2016-09-15T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:26:49","slug":"the-prodger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/09\/the-prodger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prodger"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>As part of the Cultural programme of the Northern Ireland Centenary Commemorations, Solar Theatre Productions presents The Prodger at The Old Courthouse Theatre, on Friday 30 September at 7.30pm<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/press14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12504\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/press14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0Irish veterans of WW1 were a forgotten generation. However the veterans didn\u2019t forget the war, nor did others let them forget who they fought for. For some it never went away\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Set in a pub on a wild winter\u2019s night in Lismore Co. Waterford in 1964, this powerful one-act play is\u00a0a poignant re-imagining of one such veteran\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the\u00a0writer\u2019s\u00a0Great-Uncle Johnny, who lost a leg in battle, woke up in a morgue\u00a0and faced\u00a0unequivocal prejudice when he returned home.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, the\u00a0devastation of war still lingers and Johnny\u2019s story still lies buried. \u00a0As rumours of a local murder unfold and old wounds and secrets are exposed, he can no longer hold back and finally roars his tale.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for this powerful drama are available from Box Office on 028 9442 8331 or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk\/boxoffice\">www.antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk\/boxoffice<\/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>As part of the Cultural programme of the Northern Ireland Centenary Commemorations, Solar Theatre Productions presents The Prodger at The Old Courthouse Theatre, on Friday 30 September at 7.30pm The\u00a0Irish veterans of WW1 were a forgotten generation. However the veterans didn\u2019t forget the war, nor did others let them forget who they fought for. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/09\/the-prodger\/\">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\/12501"}],"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=12501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12506,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions\/12506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}