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Dateline: 10th December, 2004
Save the Lyric, Says Neeson Actor Liam Neeson is spearheading a campaign to rebuild Belfast's Lyric Theatre. Earlier this week he held a fund-raising dinner in New York to persuade "healthy, wealthy Irish Americans" to contribute towards the £8m cost of rebuilding the "very dilapidated" theatre. The Lyric, says Antrim-born Neeson, is "too important to the cultural and social life of Northern Ireland for this building to crumble and fall apart." He began his acting career there in the seventies, playing monthly rep. In spite of the Troubles, he added, "this theatre was like a Belisha beacon of light and hope six nights a week, doing everything from Shakespeare to Yeats to O'Casey with a group of actors and actresses that affected me very deeply and still do." The Lyric, which started fifty years ago and moved into the current building in 1968, also helped actors Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea and writers Martin Lynch and Gary Mitchell make their first steps in professional theatre. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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