More Honours For Drama Circle

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” has collected another consignment of awards on the Drama Festival circuit. Sligo Drama Circle won the first prize in the open competition – the Festival Silver Challenge Cup – at Ballyshannon Drama Festival which closed on last Sunday night. The adjudicator, Mr. John Knipe, a well-known figure on the Northern drama scene, praised “a most sophisticated and elegant” production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams.

This, he said, was “a splendid play, very well done”. The award for best actress of the week in the open section went to Maria Mc Dermottroe who played “the Cat”. The John Stephens Cup for best production went to Liam Mc Kinney. The Drama Circle have already won their way through to the All-Ireland finals to be held in Athlone in April. Their next production “Many Young Men of Twenty” by John B. Keane, is in rehearsal and goes on the boards shortly. At the Scariff, Co. Clare, Festival, the Drama Circle won the best production award, while Tony Wehrly won the Best Actor award.

from The Sligo Champion, April 4th, 1975