{"id":4967,"date":"2012-09-17T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2012-09-17T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T10:01:10","slug":"dan-gordon%e2%80%99s-lucky-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/09\/dan-gordon%e2%80%99s-lucky-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"DAN GORDON\u2019S LUCKY BAG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aspects-Festival-Dan-Gordan-14-09-2012-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4968\" title=\"Aspects Festival Dan Gordan 14-09-2012-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Aspects-Festival-Dan-Gordan-14-09-2012-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Red Hand Luke\u2019 actor, Dan Gordon will close this year\u2019s Aspects Festival on Sunday 30<sup>th<\/sup> September at 7.00pm in The Parish of Bangor Abbey Halls, and tickets cost \u00a311\/\u00a39.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p>Dan is no stranger to the stages of Northern Ireland and has worked on a variety of productions as actor, director and playwright. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Red Hand Luke in the BBC Northern Ireland sitcom <em>Give My Head Peace<\/em>, and has also played the lead in Marie Jones\u2019 monodrama <em>A Night In November<\/em> in London and in the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>Dan\u2019s most recent piece of theatre, <em>The Boat Factory<\/em> is based on his own experience of growing up around the East Belfast shipyard and is set in the days when the Harland and Wolff Shipyard was the leading shipbuilding firm in the world. The play is the story of a 16 year old boy starting his first job in the shipyard, and the lessons he learns about humanity against the background of that Belfast icon. Dan has been touring and performing the show across Europe, including taking the play to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer to great acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Gordon\u2019s Lucky Bag is a one man show that brings together extracts from the scripts, stories and songs he has been involved with throughout his career, including excerpts from <em>The Boat Factory. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets can be purchased online at <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northdown.gov.uk\/bookings\"><strong>www.northdown.gov.uk\/bookings<\/strong><\/a><strong>, at North Down Museum (028 9127 1200) and Bangor Tourist Information Centre (028 9127 0069). <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/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>\u2018Red Hand Luke\u2019 actor, Dan Gordon will close this year\u2019s Aspects Festival on Sunday 30th September at 7.00pm in The Parish of Bangor Abbey Halls, and tickets cost \u00a311\/\u00a39. Dan is no stranger to the stages of Northern Ireland and has worked on a variety of productions as actor, director and playwright. He is perhaps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/09\/dan-gordon%e2%80%99s-lucky-bag\/\">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\/4967"}],"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=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}