{"id":25472,"date":"2018-02-26T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25472"},"modified":"2018-03-07T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:15:14","slug":"the-arts-show-maura-walsh-chats-to-director-niall-henry-ahead-of-the-play-shackleton-which-is-running-at-the-project-arts-centre-from-26th-february-10th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25472","title":{"rendered":"The Arts Show:  Maura Walsh chats to Director Niall Henry, ahead of the play Shackleton which is running at The Project Arts Centre from 26th February &#8211; 10th March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The tale of Irish explorer, Ernest Shackleton\u2019s escape from the Antarctic.\u00a0Blue Raincoat Theatre Company&#8217;s acclaimed original play is a story of endurance. It&#8217;s a<span lang=\"EN-US\">n atmospheric visual feast told by a talented ensemble cast, complemented by original footage and scaled miniatures.\u00a0<i>Shackleton<\/i>\u00a0won Best Set Design and was also nominated in\u00a0the Best New Play and Best Sound Design categories.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Niall\u00a0<span id=\"m_-4981275961044199950gmail-742\" class=\"m_-4981275961044199950gmail-gr_ m_-4981275961044199950gmail-gr_742 m_-4981275961044199950gmail-gr-alert m_-4981275961044199950gmail-gr_gramm m_-4981275961044199950gmail-gr_inline_cards m_-4981275961044199950gmail-gr_run_anim m_-4981275961044199950gmail-Grammar m_-4981275961044199950gmail-multiReplace\">describes<\/span>\u00a0how\u00a0he brought this dramatic event in history to life.\u00a0 He chats about Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer, the man, and his<\/span>\u00a0short life. We are taken on an epic journey which began in Co. Kildare, an ambitious race to the south pole outlining the expeditions, knighthood, survival and ultimately to his untimely death.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<i><b>\u201cMen wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold . . . safe return doubtful.\u201d<\/b><\/i><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The tale of Irish explorer, Ernest Shackleton\u2019s escape from the Antarctic.\u00a0Blue Raincoat Theatre Company&#8217;s acclaimed original play is a story of endurance. It&#8217;s an atmospheric visual feast told by a talented ensemble cast, complemented by original footage and scaled miniatures.\u00a0Shackleton\u00a0won Best Set Design and was also nominated in\u00a0the Best New Play and Best Sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,33,68],"tags":[9645,9646,5054,2148,9644,9647,2980],"class_list":["post-25472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","category-general","category-listenagain","category-the-arts-show-arts-2","tag-blue-raincoat-theatre-company","tag-bowe-communications","tag-maura-walsh","tag-near-fm","tag-niall-henry","tag-project-arts-centre","tag-the-arts-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25605,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions\/25605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}