[{"node":{"title":"Boyd135","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"1978 Jan 11th","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd135","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lyric Theatre, Colleen Bawn, Uncle Vanya","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd135","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd135_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffLYRIC PLAYERS THEATRE,\n55, Ridgeway Street,\nBELFAST\n\n\"PRESS RELEASE\"\n\nTelephone 669660\n\nThe COLLEEN BAWN continues at the Lyric Theatre until the\n28th. January and is proving great family entertainment.\n\nThe set for the COLLEEN BAWN has been designed by Brian\nCollins from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and is based on an\nidea of what the play might have looked like in an old\nVictorian Theatre and it catches just the right atmosphere of\npantomime, melodrama, romance and comedy.\n\nRehearsals have started for UNCLE VANYA which will \"Open\"\nat the Lyric Theatre on Wednesday, 1st. February with \"Previews\"\non Monday, 30th January and Tuesday 31st. January.\n\nThe play, rightly regarded as one of the masterpieces of modern\ndrama, was written in the 1890's and was first performed by the\nMoscow Art Theatre in 1899. It is about country life in Russia\nin the late 19th century and portrays the conflicts of a middle-\nclass Russian family with great compassion and humour.\n\nUNCLE VANYA has never been done before at the Lyric and has\nnot been seen in Belfast since 1963.\n\nTONY DINNER\nARTISTIC DIRECTOR\n\nll/l/78\n","Type":"Text"}}]