Dublin Up to Date - Percy French
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A New and Previously Unrecorded Staging of “Dublin Up To “ by Percy French. In “The World of Percy French” by Brendan O’Dowda (p. 16) he relates how in 1891 French teamed up with his talented friend Richard Orpen and wrote “Dublin Up To Date” a type of ‘lantern-lecture’ illustrated with caricatures of celebrities in and out of society. It was staged at the “Antient Concert Rooms” to great success. Richard Orpen enlisted the services of his brother Willie (later Sir William) and during the interval they drew lightning sketches in coloured chalks of the patrons and sold them for a small fee. There is no reference in the book to any 1892 staging of “Dublin Up To Date” and the Percy French Society in Down have no record of this production. This programme is therefore a new and previously unrecorded example of this Percy French work.
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A New and Previously Unrecorded Staging of “Dublin Up To “ by
Percy French.
In “The World of Percy French” by Brendan O’Dowda (p. 16) he relates how in 1891
French teamed up with his talented friend Richard Orpen and wrote “Dublin Up To
Date” a type of ‘lantern-lecture’ illustrated with caricatures of celebrities in and out of
society.
It was staged at the “Antient Concert Rooms” to great success. Richard Orpen enlisted
the services of his brother Willie (later Sir William) and during the interval they drew
lightning sketches in coloured chalks of the patrons and sold them for a small fee.
There is no reference in the book to any 1892 staging of “Dublin Up To Date” and the
Percy French Society in Down have no record of this production. This programme is
therefore a new and previously unrecorded example of this Percy French work.
