{"id":4464,"date":"2012-05-15T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2012-05-15T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:05:38","slug":"the-true-untold-story-of-the-titanic-destined-for-the-grand-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/05\/the-true-untold-story-of-the-titanic-destined-for-the-grand-opera-house\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TRUE, UNTOLD STORY OF THE TITANIC &#8211; DESTINED FOR THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>To mark 100 years since its sinking, one of Belfast\u2019s most prominent playwrights, Martin Lynch, turns his attention to the legendary Titanic story.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p>The Titanic Boys, tells the true, untold story of nine young Harland &amp; Wolff men who uniquely built, sailed and died on the RMS Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks before the Titanic sailed, designer Thomas Andrews walked into the four main trade workshops at Harland and Wolff and asked each foreman to name his best apprentice. When the bosses nominated four young men, Andrews informed the stunned apprentices they were joining himself and four senior tradesmen to sail on Titanic\u2019s maiden voyage to New York as members of the H&amp;W Guarantee Group.<\/p>\n<p>The Titanic Boys brings the Titanic story back to where it all began \u2013 Belfast. Heart-warming and heart-breaking, this story of nine men who knew the Titanic better than anyone else in the world is truly remarkable. Laced with Lynch\u2019s renowned capacity for capturing Belfast character and humour, this is one not to be missed!<\/p>\n<p>The Titanic Boys opens at the Grand Opera House on Wednesday 8<sup>th<\/sup> August and runs until Saturday 25<sup>th<\/sup> August. Ticket prices start at \u00a312 and can be purchased via telephone on 9024 1919, online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goh.co.uk\/\">www.goh.co.uk<\/a> or in person at the theatre\u2019s Box Office.<\/p>\n<p>See a clip from the exclusive preview here, thanks to Discover NI<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A7VVf0ylKa4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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>To mark 100 years since its sinking, one of Belfast\u2019s most prominent playwrights, Martin Lynch, turns his attention to the legendary Titanic story. The Titanic Boys, tells the true, untold story of nine young Harland &amp; Wolff men who uniquely built, sailed and died on the RMS Titanic. Two weeks before the Titanic sailed, designer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/05\/the-true-untold-story-of-the-titanic-destined-for-the-grand-opera-house\/\">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\/4464"}],"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=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}