{"id":16998,"date":"2019-01-15T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=16998"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:07:37","slug":"%ef%bb%bfdramatic-new-season-at-portico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/01\/%ef%bb%bfdramatic-new-season-at-portico\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffDRAMATIC NEW SEASON AT PORTICO!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Portico Arts & Heritage Centre in Portaferry has five fabulous\ntheatre shows coming up in the next few weeks. \u2018Years of Our Jimmy\u2019 on Sat 19\nJan is William Caulfield\u2019s hilarious tribute to the legendary James Young. The\nshow combines original and new material to bring back the beloved\ncomedy characters of Lily O’Condriac, Billy Hulk, Big Derek, Orange Lil, Willie\nSimpson, The Ballymena Man and wee Sammy the Schoolboy. How is Derek’s mammy?\nIs Emily Beattie still on the scrounge? Has Billy Hulk started any more\nstrikes? Is Willie Simpson ever sober? To find out the answers to these\nquestions and much more in comedy sketches and songs this is a show not to be\nmissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Carson: A Rebel Without A Pause arrives on Sat 9 Feb. Belfast\nfunnyman Frank Carson blazed a comedy trail for over fifty years.\u2028\u2028 In this\nacclaimed one-man show, written and performed by Dan Gordon, we journey with\nFrank from his Belfast boyhood – where life was so tough even the arms on the\nchairs had tattoos – through his adventures in the army, and into the world of\nshowbiz where he entertained Royalty, delighted Pope John Paul II and never\nforgot where he came from. A whirlwind comedy drama celebrating the man, the\nmyth and the mouth – it\u2019s a cracker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sat 23 Feb, Pip Utton brings his multi-award winning show Playing\nMaggie to Portico. \u201cMaster of the self-written character monologue, Pip\nUtton lifts the genre onto a new plane with his embodiment of Margaret\nThatcher\u201d (The Stage). A fascinating exploration of an actor facing the\nchallenge of Playing Maggie. The show includes an in-character Q&A. What\nwould you like to ask Maggie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Centre Stage Theatre Company brings its new show The Trials of Oscar\nWilde on Sat 2 Mar. From the actual transcript of Edward Carson\u2019s\nbrilliant cross-examination, Wilde\u2019s only surviving grandson, and international\ndirector John O\u2019Connor, have collected and dramatised Court records,\njournalist\u2019s notes and newspaper reports of the three trials involving the\nflawed genius, Oscar Wilde. The review in The Independent stated \u2018…the\nresult is as good as being in the gallery.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last of the five is Freak Show by Big Telly Theatre Productions on Fri\n15 Mar. Freak\nShow is a highly inventive blast of theatre which collides comedy, visuals and\ntaut poetic text with true stories of people who were displayed as freaks in\nthe 18th Century. Fast talking eejits are hell bent to get rich quick with\ntheir bizarre bazaar of curiosities and the unexpected, but they get more than\nthey bargained for in this radical roadshow of revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music fans are, of course, also catered for. January brings country\u2019s\nfinest Derek Ryan, February sees The Lonesome Ace Stringband from Canada and\nMarch features the world\u2019s number one guitarist Don Alder, the splendid Chamber\nPhilharmonic of Europe and the fABBAulous Bjorn Identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nfurther information or to buy tickets visit www.porticoards.com<\/a>. All concerts always finish in good time for the last\nferry. Portico is\nsupported by Ards and North Down Borough Council and the Arts Council of\nNorthern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portico Arts & Heritage Centre in Portaferry has five fabulous theatre shows coming up in the next few weeks. \u2018Years of Our Jimmy\u2019 on Sat 19 Jan is William Caulfield\u2019s hilarious tribute to the legendary James Young. The show combines original and new material to bring back the beloved comedy characters of Lily O’Condriac, Billy … 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\/16998"}],"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=16998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17001,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16998\/revisions\/17001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}