Our “Wasn’t It A Full Life” production takes place from Tuesday to Friday this week at 8pm. It takes place in the unique venue of Sligo Courthouse in Teeling Street right in the centre of Sligo. Taking place in the Circuit Court, its excellent acoustics and ambience makes it a perfect venue for our 1916-themed show. The courtroom features a […]
An historic first for Sligo Drama Circle will take place when we stage “Wasn’t it a Full Life” in Sligo Courthouse from Tuesday April 26th – Friday April 29th at 8:00 p.m in Sligo Courthouse. Based around the events of the 1916 Easter Rising, this piece has been specially researched and written by director, Michael […]
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms. Sligo Drama Circle has had a presence on Instagram since November 2013 and has a […]
Local actor Bob Kelly is currently engaged as Theatre Artist in Residence at the Hawk’s Well Theatre for this year. Bob is at present writing a new piece of theatre The Big Wall to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. This ambitious, new performance project will take place at Sligo Courthouse and Sligo Gaol […]
As we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of our founding, we are making a special appeal to members of the public in Sligo and afar to help us to source and develop our archival material. While we have endeavoured, especially over the past ten years, to gather together evidence of our past activities, we still feel […]
We’ve just acquired some new photos for our archive – these are from a 1963 production of “The Passing Players” by District Justice Kenneth Reddin. Reddin was an Irish novelist and district justice in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes writing under the pseudonym of Kenneth Sarr. We know very little about the […]
Imagine a play where two of the four characters spend all their time in dustbins! No – it’s not something from the Muppets, just a play by Sam Beckett called “Endgame” which will be getting its North-Western premiere this coming week in Sligo. It’s also the first theatre production to take place at The Venue, […]
A rare book published in 1977, “Festival Glory in Athlone”, devotes a chapter to the quest of the Sligo Drama Circle to achieve the ultimate goal in the All-Ireland Drama Finals in Athlone in the 1960s and 1970s. Penned by Gus Smith, a newspaper drama critic at the time, chapter 20 in the book is […]
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death last night of one of our founder members, Walter Mc Donagh. Walter will be fondly remembered by all those in the dramatic community for his wonderful contribution to the development of drama and theatre in Sligo. Sligo audiences will especially remember his great characterisations […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre this March to celebrate 60 years of amateur drama in Sligo with its production of the late Brian Friel classic “TRANSLATIONS”. The action of the play takes place in August 1833 in the Irish-speaking community of the townland of Baile Beag in Co. […]
Over the years Sligo Drama Circle has used many places for the rehearsal of plays and making of sets and costumes. Sligo Columban Club, Sligo Social Services, Scoil Ursula. For
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Members of Sligo Drama Circle featured on a programme on Ocean FM’s outside broadcast this morning, Friday December 8th, to celebrate the work of Sligo Men’s Shed. We have previously written on this website about Sligo Men’s Shed, but today was about creating an awareness of the Men’s Shed and the work that they do […]
As part of our production of “The Importance of Being Earnest” in the Hawk’s Well Theatre this November, we will be hosting an exhibition in association with the Hawk’s Well Theatre celebrating the contribution of the late Joe Meehan to both Sligo Drama Circle and the Hawk’s Well Theatre. Like many others of his generation, […]
Sligo Men’s Shed Work With SDC
Thirteen years ago a group of Sligomen met to discuss starting a Men’s Shed in the town. Those first meetings were held in the Family Life Centre on the Mall, but it soon became clear that if the idea was to develop, a permanent premises would be needed. Enter Fr. Tom Hever, who told the […]
Sligo Drama Circle is an amateur drama group formed in 1956 to provide live theatre to the Sligo public. With the disappearance of the professional theatre companies from the Irish scene at the time, and the reluctance of the National Theatre to undertake provincial tours, the amateur movement across the
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We in Sligo Drama Circle were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Lionel Gallagher this week. Lionel was a long-standing member of Sligo Drama Circle and was active in many roles within the group for more than 50 years. But it was on the stage where he belonged and where he excelled. Lionel […]
Members of Sligo Drama Circle featured on a programme on Ocean FM’s outside broadcast this morning, Friday December 8th, to celebrate the work of Sligo Men’s Shed. We have previously written on this website about Sligo Men’s Shed, but today was about creating an awareness of the Men’s Shed and the work that they do […]
Sligo Drama Circle will be performing the well-known John B. Keane play “Sive” in the Spring of 2025. It will be staged in the Hawks Well Theatre from April 2nd to 5th. Set in 1950s Ireland, the play revolves around the arranged marriage of the young Sive to an elderly man in a deal worth […]