One-Man Show Presented to an Attentive and Rapt Audience
VANCOUVER - On May 29 at the Cambrian Hall, Dublin-born actor Frank Talbot held an attentive and rapt audience with his two-and-a-half-hour, amazing and powerful one-man-show A Night In November, by Belfast Playwright Marie Jones.
The play is about a soccer match played at Windsor Park in Belfast in 1993 between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Kenneth McAlister attended that match and the hate and bigotry that took place at the match changed his life forever.
Actor Frank Talbot, led us through the emotions that Kenneth McAlister went through after the match and how his values changed both with his wife, fellow workers and friends. We felt the same freedom and excitement that he felt as he drove to Dublin to meet up with his fellow Irishmen and the journey to New York to the World Cup. It was an emotional charged play – the humorous, the sad and the poignant were all there.
Frank Talbot has an amazing talent to switch from a Belfast to a Dublin accent in an instant, to say nothing of remembering all those lines in a two-and-a-half-hour show. A Night In November is a thought-provoking play that still plays out in your head long after you have seen it and you'd like to see it again.
CATHOLINE BUTLER of The Celtic Connection presents Sharon Keough with an award in recognition for her long hours of volunteer work with The Celtic Heritage Society of Canada.
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After the play The Celtic Connection presented their annual Irish Person of the Year Award. The recipient is presented to someone who has contributed in a humanitarian way to the Celtic community and the community-at-large. This year's Irish Person of the Year Award went to Thomas O'Flynn, well-known in the Irish community for his tireless work with the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
The Celtic Connection also recognized Sharon Keough of the Celtic Heritage Society of Canada and presented her with a special award for her dedicated volunteer work to help establish a Celtic cultural centre in Burnaby.
COLLEEN CARPENTER who was celebrating her birthday was presented with a bouquet of flowers. Colleen is a dedicated worker with The Celtic Connection who volunteers countless long hours to ensure the paper reaches our readers. On the night of the play, she was a volunteer working on the door
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The evening was a fundraiser for The Celtic Connection newspaper and we thank all those people who came out to the play. Special thanks also to Jimmy Cole, Mary Brunner and Sandra Nisbet for providing the musical entertainment after the play. As always, thanks to our volunteers for all your work, we couldn't do it without you.
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