1939-05-15

Performance Date(s):

Monday, May 15, 1939

Tuesday, May 16, 1939

Wednesday, May 17, 1939

Thursday, May 18, 1939

Friday, May 19, 1939

Saturday, May 20, 1939

Known Number of Performances:

Programme Text:

[…]
Monday, 15th May, 1939, and following nights at 8.15.

INSURANCE MONEY
A Comedy in Three Acts, by GEORGE SHIELS.
[…]

There will be Intervals of Ten Minutes between the Acts, and an Interval of Twelve Minutes between the Plays.

First Production of
DONNCHADH RUADH
by SÉAMUS Ó hAODHA.
(One of the Prizewinning Plays in the recent Abbey Theatre Gaelic Play Competition).
[…]

The Orchestra under the direction of F. M. MAY, Mus. Bac., will perform the following selections:
Overture Mirella Gounod (1818-1893)
Fantasie L’Heure Espagnole Ravel (1875-1937)
Suite Jeux D’Enfants Berceuse Impromptu Duo Galop Bizet (1838-1875)
Suite Irish Airs arr. Frederick May

View the cast and creative personnel for this performance on the Abbey Archive:

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/1649
http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/1650

Location of original programme:

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 38/1939

View this programmes' parent collection on the Concert Programmes Database:

http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/8209

Musical Director(s):

May, Frederick (1911-1985)

Composer(s):

Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)

Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)

May, Frederick (1911-1985)