Soliloquy February 1967

The interior wall of our Market Yard premises has been knocked and much more space is now available for future activities there. Planned is “An Evening with Mortimer” consisting of readings from two of John Mortimer’s better known one-act plays, “Lunch Hour” and “The Dock Brief”. We hope to have further information about this in our next issue. Also planned is an art exhibition by Meisha O’Reilly to coincide with this year’s Yeats Summer School. This is a welcome development within the Circle which we especially welcome.

We have been invited to visit Bundoran with the “Playboy” on the Thursday night of Easter Week. The Irish National Teachers’ Annual Convention is being held in Bundoran during that week and we are assured of an enlightened and stimulating audience.

Some members have suggested that we should have more organised trips to the Dublin Theatre following the success of last year’s visit to the Peter O’ Toole “Juno and the Paycock”. It is an idea worth considering once the festival season is over.

The Sligo Drama Circle produced a newsletter during the early years of its existence. It was named “Soliloquy” during some periods. The correspondent often wrote under the pseudonym “Pegeen Mike”. This is an excerpt from one of the newsletters that we have in our possession. If you have copies of other newsletters, perhaps you could let us have copies. Please contact us through our contacts page.