{"id":6543,"date":"2013-11-01T20:18:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=6543"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:18:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:18:41","slug":"record-breaking-play-coming-to-strabane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/11\/record-breaking-play-coming-to-strabane\/","title":{"rendered":"RECORD BREAKING PLAY COMING TO STRABANE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Derry playwright Brian Foster\u2019s hugely successful stage play<\/em><em>, Maire\u2013a Woman of Derry<\/em>, will perform for one night only at The Alley Theatre, Strabane, on Tuesday, November 19<sup>th<\/sup> at 8pm.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maire_LastArtwork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6544\" title=\"Maire_LastArtwork\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Maire_LastArtwork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a>Featuring Derry\u2019s foremost actress, Carmel McCafferty, this hilarious, harrowing, and ultimately heart breaking story has played to packed houses and standing ovations throughout Ireland, England, Canada and America. Bringing in a combined audience of close on 40,000 has made it the most successful play in the history of local Derry theatre. At Derry\u2019s thousand seater Millennium Forum Theatre, it broke box office records!<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maire <\/em>Mc Laughlin is foul-mouthed and feisty, but also intensely human. Armed only with her half-bottle of street wine, she gives an incredible account of her fall from grace from fresh faced teenage bride living in Derry&#8217;s Creggan Estate, to the pitiful condition we find her in today. Along the way we see working class life and death at its funniest, rawest and cruellest. And we get to meet an assortment of unforgettable characters who have coloured Maire\u2019s life<em>. <\/em>From incorrigible scrounger<em> Tina the Tap, <\/em>to habitual smoker <em>Big Bridie<\/em> and her husband<em> Jimmy the Tadpole. <\/em><em>From <\/em><em>Posh Maisie<\/em><em>, to seriously cross-eyed <\/em><em>Matilda<\/em><em> and <\/em><em>The Hairy Man <\/em><em>from Strabane, to innocent little <\/em><em>Norris the Gnome<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hailed as \u2018magnificent\u2019 and \u2018unmissable\u2019 by the critics, <em>Maire \u2013 a Woman of Derry<\/em> is a theatrical triumph not to be missed!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>NB: This play contains strong language and adult content throughout. Please do not come to be offended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a315, \u00a313 (con) and available from the Alley Theatre Box Office on 028 71 384444 or online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alley-theatre.com\/\">www.alley-theatre.com<\/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>Derry playwright Brian Foster\u2019s hugely successful stage play, Maire\u2013a Woman of Derry, will perform for one night only at The Alley Theatre, Strabane, on Tuesday, November 19th at 8pm. Featuring Derry\u2019s foremost actress, Carmel McCafferty, this hilarious, harrowing, and ultimately heart breaking story has played to packed houses and standing ovations throughout Ireland, England, Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/11\/record-breaking-play-coming-to-strabane\/\">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\/6543"}],"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=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}