{"id":15888,"date":"2018-03-01T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=15888"},"modified":"2018-03-01T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T10:30:02","slug":"invitations-are-out-for-abigails-party-at-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/03\/invitations-are-out-for-abigails-party-at-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"INVITATIONS ARE OUT FOR ABIGAIL\u2019S PARTY AT THE MAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

“brilliant and hilarious” <\/em>– Daily Telegraph<\/h1>\n

Abigail\u2019s Party is the play everyone remembers, from the decade fashion forgot.<\/em><\/h1>\n

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\"\"A revival of Mike Leigh\u2019s <\/strong>acclaimed play, Abigail\u2019s Party<\/em><\/strong> takes to the stage in the MAC Belfast in April. A biting, hilarious, disco-infused satire of British suburbia in the 70’s,<\/p>\n

this is one of the most iconic stage plays of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

A new MAC production starring Belfast actress Roisin Gallagher<\/strong> as Beverly, Abigail\u2019s Party<\/em> will open for a three-week run from 14 April until 5 May 2018.<\/p>\n

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From a time when the height of urban sophistication was cheese and pineapple on a stick, served nonchalantly on a Lazy Susan, comes a tragi-comedy about social climbing,<\/p>\n

prejudice and fear of not doing \u2018the done thing\u2019. The production is directed by Richard Croxford<\/strong> with an ensemble cast featuring Brigid Shine, Will Irvine, Craig Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n

and Imogen Slaughter <\/strong>during a cocktail party which Beverly and her husband Laurence are hosting for their neighbours. The evening is fuelled by plenty of alcohol, an<\/p>\n

array of savoury bites and olives, and Donna Summer on the record player. But as prejudices are unmasked and tempers flare, Beverly\u2019s perfectly planned evening<\/p>\n

unravels before her eyes.<\/p>\n

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The award-winning writer and director Mike Leigh called his play \u201cboth a celebration and a lamentation of how we are\u201d, because this isn\u2019t just a play about 1970s Britain,<\/p>\n

it\u2019s a peek into the frustrations and struggles endured by everyone who has ever floundered and grasped their way through life.<\/p>\n

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Commenting on the production Simon Magill, Creative Director at the MAC, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be producing Mike Leigh\u2019s bitingly acerbic play at the MAC this spring,<\/p>\n

perhaps introducing to many that which is familiar to a whole generation of us, thanks, partly, to its legendary 1977 \u2018Play for Today\u2019 production on BBC1.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tickets for Abigail\u2019s Party<\/em> are now on-sale. For more information about the show or to book, visit themaclive.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“brilliant and hilarious” – Daily Telegraph Abigail\u2019s Party is the play everyone remembers, from the decade fashion forgot.   A revival of Mike Leigh\u2019s acclaimed play, Abigail\u2019s Party takes to the stage in the MAC Belfast in April. A biting, hilarious, disco-infused satire of British suburbia in the 70’s, this is one of the most … Continued<\/a><\/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\/15888"}],"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=15888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15890,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888\/revisions\/15890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}