Relive the final hours of Titanic

THE Old Courthouse, Antrim, is proud to host, on Thursday April 19 at 7.30pm, an exciting new piece of audio theatre which explores the final hours of the Titanic.

In this one night only production, Wireless Mystery Theatre presents all the radio signals that went out on the night of 14th April 1912. Mixing the messages with the music played on the ship, the audience will hear everything on the airwaves but, like all the radio controllers, will be unable to stop the disaster.

Hundreds of wireless radio communications were sent to and from Titanic as she floundered in icy waters in the mid Atlantic.

Although many lives were lost, wireless transmissions made it possible to save lives as ships rushed to aid the sinking vessel. Were it not for Marconi’s wireless telegraph system there would probably have been no survivors to tell the tale of the Titanic, the most famous sinking in history.

Instead of trying to hang a narrative on the well-known Titanic story, this production allows the tragedy to unfold for the audience just as it unfolded for the radio-controllers, with nothing added.

Everything recorded in the play is true: the poorly coordinated response; the first use of the new SOS distress call and the fight in the radio cabin between the radiomen and a passenger for a lifebelt.

There were two radio controllers on RMS Titanic, only one of them survived. The Titanic’s radio log did not survive but all messages are pieced together from the logs of the ships and the bases that communicated with Titanic including the Carpathian which saved many lives.

Tickets are still available for the show on Thursday 19 April at 7.30pm at £10/£8 concession from the box office on 028 9446 3113 or online at www.antrim.gov.uk/oldcourthouse

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