Yvonne Steals the Show!

Sligo Drama Circle’s actress Yvonne Curran was the star of the show at the First National / Mid and North West Radio Drama Awards where she won the Best Actress category. Yvonne was competing with top amateur actresses from counties Donegal, Mayo, Roscommon, Leitrim and Galway. Yvonne played the lead role in Kenny Donagher’s highly commended work “The Return”. Kenny Donagher wrote this play specifically for the Radio drama series. Sligo Drama Circle were nominated in almost all categories in what has become a major drama occasion for the West and North West.

The cast with Sligo Drama Circle’s entry included: Michael Lyons, Yvonne Curran, Rita Ann Burke, John Mahon, Peter Breen and Kenny Donagher. This year’s overall winner of the Radio Drama Awards was the Coolmore Players, Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal. They won the £500 cash prize and the First National specially commissioned perpetual trophy for Soinbhe Lally’s excellent work “The Wonders of the Universe and Other Species”. The series was adjudicated by a panel of independent adjudicators including well known drama critic with the Irish Independent, Des Rushe, playwright and writer-in-residence with the Abbey Theatre, Neil Donnelly, Director of the Druid Theatre Galway, Maeliosa Stafford, and the panel were chaired by non-voting drama enthusiast, Seán Mc Loone, First National Manager, Donegal Town.

from The Sligo Champion, August 12th, 1994