standing ovation focus on Stephen Rea 💖
at *Spreading The News*
120th anniversary celebration 🎉🎂🥂🍾
of the National Theatre of Ireland 🇮🇪 the Abbey Theatre 🎭 8-Dec-2024
rapturous applause for the brilliant performances and the wonderful event 👏👏👏
there’s a (mostly audio-only) film of the live show at the Abbey 🥳 (rubbish filming though):
part 1 👉 ua-cam.com/video/t3v4a57Gl9g/v-deo.html
part 2 👉 ua-cam.com/video/HQRpFksC-mQ/v-deo.html
the complete only-Stephen-Rea 💘 readings 📖 📖 📖 (video-ish) from live show 8-Dec-2024 👉 ua-cam.com/video/XyzGxEmDwKo/v-deo.html
featuring performances by, l to r: Caitriona McLaughlin (Abbey co-director), Barbara Bergin (I’m not sure she read anything), Peter Coonan,
Stephen Rea 😍
Eileen Walsh, Kate Stanley Brennan, Domhnall Herdman, Sean McGinley, Brid Ni Neachtain, Patrick Martins, Kate Gilmore (all established theatre actors and performers who’ve performed at the Abbey Theatre over the years)
featuring a range of scripts, characters and speeches written by: Barbara Bergin, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Lady Gregory, Stacey Gregg, Tom Murphy, Anna Mullarkey, Frank McGuinness, Caitríona McLaughlin, Conor McPherson, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Sean O’Casey, Mark O’Rowe, J. M. Synge, W. B. Yeats and Enda Walsh.
Produced and presented in partnership with RTÉ
the live show, in theatre, was on 8-Dec-2024 from 6pm 🎭
which was sound-recorded for RTE RadioOne and radio broadcast originally in a cut version on 27-Dec-2024 6pm, the 120th anniversary date of the foundation of the Abbey Theatre by Lady Gregory and WB Yeats and the first performances there 🎊
then re-broadcast in full (1 1/2 hours long) on Irish Bank Holiday Monday 3-Feb-2025 1:30pm-3pm 👉 ua-cam.com/video/fGyUoD4pod4/v-deo.html
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