{"id":208799,"date":"2025-10-18T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208799\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:19:09","slug":"geraldine-hughes-belfast-actress-returns-home-to-direct-incredible-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208799\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldine Hughes: Belfast actress returns home to direct &#8216;incredible&#8217; play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Hughes said she wants to bring &#8220;important stories&#8221; to Belfast &#8211; stories she is &#8220;proud to tell and be associated with&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She grew up in west Belfast in the 1970s and 1980s, before leaving for the USA to pursue an acting career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy to be back at the Lyric Theatre,&#8221; she told BBC News NI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Belfast is special. Belfast is the best city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I travel for work, I go to many different places, and Belfast is the greatest audiences, the most hospitable and welcoming and responsive audiences, and the Lyric team are fantastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love being here. It&#8217;s a beautiful space.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Hughes said she wants to bring &#8220;important stories&#8221; to Belfast &#8211; stories she is &#8220;proud to tell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-208799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}