A New and Previously Unrecorded Staging of Dublin Up To by Percy French.

In The World of Percy French by Brendan ODowda (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.