{"id":112282,"date":"2025-05-18T17:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112282\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:49:22","slug":"ivan-little-amateur-drama-movement-needs-our-support-so-lets-get-behind-next-budding-liam-neeson-or-jamie-dornan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112282\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Little: Amateur drama movement needs our support, so let\u2019s get behind next budding Liam Neeson or Jamie Dornan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A once-thriving scene is now in the doldrums\u2026 but we can all do our bit\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ivan with the Clarence Players when they staged A View From The Bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9ac2c0bd-82e8-4f2a-87a4-112b2f578afb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ivan with the Clarence Players when they staged A View From The Bridge<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Northern Irish amateur drama movement that gave Liam Neeson and Jamie Dornan their first tastes of major acting work has been going through hard times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fewer groups, fewer festivals and fewer bums on seats are all reminders that things aren\u2019t what they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A once-thriving scene is now in the doldrums\u2026 but we can all do our bit Ivan with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6223,50948,50947,14991,50946,30732,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-112282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-armagh-gaa","9":"tag-donegal-gaa","10":"tag-grand-opera-house","11":"tag-ivan-little","12":"tag-jamie-dornan","13":"tag-liam-neeson","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114530101925009457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}