{"id":2810,"date":"2018-03-18T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2018-03-07T21:11:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:11:02","slug":"sunday-night-at-the-drama-festival-prosperous-present-sylvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/sunday-night-at-the-drama-festival-prosperous-present-sylvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night at the Drama Festival: Prosperous present &#8216;Sylvia&#8217; (7.30pm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 18 March is the concluding performance of the festival and\u00a0<strong>Prosperous Dramatic Society<\/strong>\u00a0will present\u00a0<strong>\u2018Sylvia\u2019 by A R Gurney<\/strong>. It is a smart, playful, sophisticated and occasionally gritty comedy about relationships, nature and growing older. A lovable dog changes the lives of a middle-aged couple who have entered the empty nest time of life and have moved to Manhattan after twenty years in the suburbs. Greg is dissatisfied with his job but Kate is excited about her new teaching opportunities and new-found freedom. Sylvia challenges everything and everyone in the relationship. Prosperous Dramatic Society first won the 1 Act Open All Ireland finals in 1995 with \u2018Faint Voice\u2019 by John MacKenna. They won the 1 Act All Ireland finals in 2012 with \u2018Bobby Gould in Hell\u2019 by David Marmet and again in 2012 with Neil LaBute\u2019s \u2018Lovely Head\u2019. They were invited to perform \u2018Bobby Gould in Hell\u2019 at the Mondial du Theatre in Monaco. They won the Ulster Champions title in 2013 and 2014 with Edward Albee\u2019s \u2018The Goat or Who is Sylvia\u2019 and Marc Camoletti\u2019s \u2018Boeing Boeing\u2019. In 2016 they came third in the All Ireland Finals with \u2018One Man, Two Guv\u2019nors\u2019 and were awarded the Abbey Theatre Award in the All Ireland Finals in 2017 with \u2018The Play about the Baby\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 18 March is the concluding performance of the festival and\u00a0Prosperous Dramatic Society\u00a0will present\u00a0\u2018Sylvia\u2019 by A R Gurney. It is a smart, playful, sophisticated and occasionally gritty comedy about relationships, nature and growing older. A lovable dog changes the lives of a middle-aged couple who have entered the empty nest time of life and have moved to Manhattan after twenty years in the suburbs. Greg is dissatisfied with his job but Kate is excited about her new teaching opportunities and new-found freedom. Sylvia challenges everything and everyone in the relationship. Prosperous Dramatic Society first won the 1 Act Open All Ireland finals in 1995 with \u2018Faint Voice\u2019 by John MacKenna. They won the 1 Act All Ireland finals in 2012&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ballyshannondrama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}