More Support For Little Theatre

A Chara, I don’t know how many people in Ireland, or even in Sligo town itself, are aware of it, but in the Sligo Drama Circle you have a very good theatre company and the makings of a great ___. This is the second summer in which I have had the pleasure to watch this company at work – both in rehearsals and in final productions. The acting and producing is often on par with some of the finest productions I have seen in London, Dublin and NYC.

In fact last year I saw both the Abbey Theatre and the Sligo Drama Circle productions of “Philadelphia Here I Come”. In terms of character parts and lighting the Drama Circle was by far the better. I won’t mention names as other people have done because you are always bound to leave someone out and the key-word in an enterprise such as this should be teamwork. It is very likely that when the technical difficulties endured because there is no permanent home come to an end, the Drama Circle will cause Sligo town to become a Theatre going centre comparative to Stratford-on-Avon. People will come to the North-West because of the theatre.

I hope that people in Sligo will support the Drama Circle by seeing the productions. (If you haven’t, you don’t know what you’re missing!) And I hope the Drama Circle will give us something even more concrete to support by finalising plans for a site so that work on the Little Theatre can begin. Bravo!

Jan Meyer, 240 & 55th Street, NYC, USA.

from The Sligo Champion, August 10th, 1973