{"id":7085,"date":"2014-04-15T09:31:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T08:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2014-04-15T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T08:32:03","slug":"compelling-irish-drama-at-the-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/04\/compelling-irish-drama-at-the-market-place\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPELLING IRISH DRAMA AT THE MARKET PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Peter Duffy\u2019s powerful theatrical performance of Patrick Kavanagh\u2019s poem \u2018The Great Hunger\u2019 has been touring the country for the past year to popular and critical acclaim, and now the performance is heading to the stage of The Market Place Theatre in Armagh.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/the-great-hunger-press.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7086\" title=\"the great hunger press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/the-great-hunger-press.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>Generally considered to be Patrick Kavanagh\u2019s finest work, its protagonist is bachelor farmer Patrick Maguire who has spent years at his mother\u2019s beck and call. When she finally dies aged 91, he himself is 65 and has missed the boat in terms of finding a wife and having a family of his own, a source of acute sorrow and regret to him. Peter Duffy himself grew up on a small Monaghan farm so has a ready affinity for Kavanagh\u2019s material which informs and shines through his absorbing interpretation of the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A finely-achieved and compelling production. Its conclusion was greeted with a standing ovation from the appreciative audience and the accolade was fully merited\u2019 Galway Advertiser<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Great Hunger\u2019 will be staged at The Market Place Theatre in Armagh on Saturday 26<sup>th<\/sup> April at 8pm. Tickets are priced \u00a310 and \u00a38 (concession), and can be booked by contacting the Box Office on [028] 3752 1821, or online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplacearmagh.com\">www.marketplacearmagh.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And to keep up-to-date with the latest news at the Market Place Theatre, you can follow us on Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh\">www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh<\/a>) and Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh\">www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh<\/a>) where you will find all the latest information, special offers and video previews.<\/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>Peter Duffy\u2019s powerful theatrical performance of Patrick Kavanagh\u2019s poem \u2018The Great Hunger\u2019 has been touring the country for the past year to popular and critical acclaim, and now the performance is heading to the stage of The Market Place Theatre in Armagh. Generally considered to be Patrick Kavanagh\u2019s finest work, its protagonist is bachelor farmer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/04\/compelling-irish-drama-at-the-market-place\/\">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\/7085"}],"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=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}