{"id":7257,"date":"2014-05-12T14:59:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2014-05-12T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T13:59:49","slug":"talbot-house-a-home-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/05\/talbot-house-a-home-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Talbot House: A Home From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Commemorate the Centenary with the Great War drama, \u2018Talbot House\u2019. This play journeys to The Courtyard Theatre on Wed 21 May and presents the story of a solitary haven for allied troops on the battlefield. <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Arthur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7258\" title=\"Arthur\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Arthur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>For much of the Great War the Ypres Salient was a hot bed of violent activity, but in a small house, just a few miles from the front lines in the town of Poperinge, an \u2018Every Man\u2019s Club was situated.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the turmoil, trauma and even boredom of life in the British Expeditionary Force this house became for thousands of servicemen, regardless of rank, a home from home where they could relax, read, pray, entertain and be entertained. It was called Talbot House and was run by a young diminutive army Chaplin by the name of Philip \u2018Tubby\u2019 Clayton.<\/p>\n<p>The haven would soon be referred to as simply Toc H, Toc being the army\u2019s signaller\u2019s code for the letter \u2018T\u2019 and following the end of the war the house would be the inspiration behind the Toc H movement.<\/p>\n<p>This play by peter Gill recreates the humour, music and wonderful atmosphere of this inspirational house.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss this tender tale at The Courtyard Theatre. Tickets for the play are \u00a312 &amp; \u00a310 and are available for purchase online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecourtyardtheatre.com\/\">www.thecourtyardtheatre.com<\/a> or by phoning Box Office on 028 9034 0202.<\/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>Commemorate the Centenary with the Great War drama, \u2018Talbot House\u2019. This play journeys to The Courtyard Theatre on Wed 21 May and presents the story of a solitary haven for allied troops on the battlefield. For much of the Great War the Ypres Salient was a hot bed of violent activity, but in a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/05\/talbot-house-a-home-from-home\/\">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\/7257"}],"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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7259,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions\/7259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}