Drama Circle Presentation Will Aid Festival Fund

Sligo Drama Circle are presenting “Drama at Inish”, a comedy in three acts by Lennox Robinson, in the Town Hall, Sligo from Sunday 28th March to Wednesday 31st March. This is one of the late Dr. Robinson’s best comedies and one that has been very popular both on the professional and amateur stage. The play is set in a small seaside town called Inish, a nice quiet tow of nice, quiet, decent people – or so they seem on the surface. Like most seaside towns today, the people of Inish are anxious to attract tourists, and to improve the “tone” of the place the “De La Mare Repertory Company” is invited to Inish for the tourist season. But the “De La Mare Repertory Company” is no ordinary group of touring play-actors. They only present “high-class” plays, plays that stimulate the intellect and the imagination.

And what an effect these plays have on the people of Inish! These quiet, decent people are found to be anything but quiet and some are far from decent. Things begin to happen in Inish and Inish becomes news. There is crisis after crisis there, culminating in a national disaster; Mr. Peter Hurley, the meek and docile local T.D. and “a sound party man”, went to one of the plays. As a result he did the unforgivable for a Party man. In a crucial vote in the Dáil he disobeyed the whip, voted against the Party and brought down the Government! Inish was at last on the tourist map.

The Drama Circle presentation of this play promises to be good fun for audiences and actors alike. Some of the old reliable Drama Circle members are taking part and there are some promising new faces. Like the people of Inish, Sligo is making a massive drive to improve its tourist trade, a drive which is worthy of the support of every organisation in Sligo. As a token of its support for that work, the Sligo Drama Circle are donating the proceeds of “Drama at Inish” to the Festival of Sligo Committee.

from The Sligo Champion, March 19th, 1965