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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Programme for Ambassadors Theatre, London's production of 'The White-Headed Boy'

Item

Title

Programme for Ambassadors Theatre, London's production of 'The White-Headed Boy'

Type

Image

Date

c. 1920

Description

Programme for Ambassadors Theatre, London's production of 'The White-Headed Boy' signed by some of the player's including Arthur Shields, Arthur Sinclair and Sara Allgood. Programme stapled into a cover promoting 'Warriors' Day' - 'The Entertainment World's Tribute to Ex-Service Men'. Also enclosed is a leaflet promoting upcoming performances of Abbey associated plays in the Ambassadors Theatre, explaining that the survival of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin is under threat because of 'the curfew, and the other incidents of the state of siege at present existing in Dublin.'

Identifier

T13/A/31(7)

Subject

Arthur Shields