“The Plough” Returns to the Hawks Well

The Sligo Drama Circle production of ‘The Plough and the Stars’ returns to the Hawks Well Theatre for eight nights only from Monday 3rd to Monday 10th August, inclusively. This great O’ Casey classic, colourful and one-time controversial, had a spectacularly successful spring run, so any patrons unable to gain a seat then, have a second opportunity. The director, Frank Brannigan, and his impressive cast is due full credit for the outstanding quality and popularity of this production. Frank justly ranks as a definitive interpreter of O’ Casey – this is, in fact, his fourth presentation of the ‘Plough’. Only one cast changed is involved from March last, the part of the boisterous Bessie Bugess, so ably played by Cliodhna Howley, is now taken on board by that talented actress Winifred Mc Nulty. The complete cast list reads: Michael Leydon, Yvonne Curran, Cormac Sheridan, Winifred Mc Nulty, Noreen Egan, Meg Leahy, Joe Meehan, Fergal Mc Girl, Dave Mc Keown, Siobhán O’ Doherty, Kenny Donaher, John Rouse, Eamonn Byrd, Brian Mc Gauran, Bob Mc Donagh. This large cast and hard working back-up team are once again all set to offer a really good night’s entertainment. ‘The Plough and the Stars’, a title unique and imaginative, symbolises the dream and the reality themes at the heart of the drama. Rightly enshrined as one of the great Irish classics, it was first produced in Dublin in 1926.

from The Sligo Champion, July 31st, 1992