{"id":8877,"date":"2013-05-19T23:38:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T22:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2013-05-19T23:38:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T22:38:42","slug":"unicorn-theatre-sixty-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8877","title":{"rendered":"Unicorn Theatre Sixty Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unicorn Theatre Sixty Years Old\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn June 8th 1953 The &#8216;Two Angry Women of Abingdon&#8217; was performed by Abingdon Drama Club &#8211; the first ever performance at the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unicorn Theatre Sixty Years Old\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051703.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn 1959 Orlando, an opera by Handel was performed. It was to be the first of many Handel  operas brought back to the stage at the Unicorn in Abingdon by Alan Kitching. The Unicorn and Handel have became part of Handel operatic history.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unicorn Theatre Sixty Years Old\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051704.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis evening to commemorate those sixty years there was another Handel opera &#8211; Semele &#8211; performed by Jackdaws Opera Plus. Jackdaws run music courses and Opera Plus helps young singers get on. Semele has been performed as workshops in schools and the performance was brought to the Unicorn Theatre tonight.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unicorn Theatre Sixty Years Old\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051705.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTickets were \u00a330 each and were sold out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unicorn Theatre Sixty Years Old\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13051706.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe audience included Colin Kitching, the son of Alan kitching, and David Madden, who was a child actor in the mid-50s (more plays than operas), and Christine Lightfoot, a musician from the early operas.<\/p>\n<p>The modern dress Handel had great humour and was enjoyed by all those I spoke to afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Hester for the pictures)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 8th 1953 The &#8216;Two Angry Women of Abingdon&#8217; was performed by Abingdon Drama Club &#8211; the first ever performance at the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon. In 1959 Orlando, an opera by Handel was performed. It was to be the first of many Handel operas brought back to the stage at the Unicorn in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}