Grange Mart is the brainchild of three locals, Willie Farrell, John Mc Gowan and Peter Casey. The day of the show Columb Mc Bride from the Ulster Bank presented Mick Nicholson with £50 and a grand cup. On seeing Columb, one couldn’t but reflect on the time when he, Tom Mullaney and a younger fella […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the Town Hall for its Summer Theatre on Tuesday July 11th with a revival of J. B. Keane’s famous tragic-comedy “Sive”. This All-Ireland winning drama in Athlone in 1959 should prove a popular choice with visitors and locals alike and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout July and into […]
Sligo Drama Circle’s Summer theatre season opens on a highly unusual note this year – for the first time in over twenty years audiences are to be treated to outdoor theatre. The venue for this event will be the Retreat House Gardens alongside the Cathedral car park. These grounds have been recently restored and at […]
Sligo people have been without the most important timepiece in town – the clock on the Cathedral – in recent days because of a play. The Cathedral clock, which rings out fifteen minute time chimes, has been silenced because of the play “A Man For All Seasons”, on the life of Thomas Moore is being […]
Twenty one years at the top is a long time for a theatre company by Sligo Drama Circle has been right up there since its foundation in 1956. To celebrate its coming of age and to open the 1977 Summer Season, the Circle has chosen Brendan Behan’s “The Hostage” which goes on in the Town […]
There’s no business like show business – and there isn’t a musical production that can match Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma” in illustrating that point. And that’s just one reason why Sligo Drama Circle, celebrating their 20th birthday this year, decided that “Oklahoma” would be their first venture into the full musical field. Another reason, of […]
Sligo Drama Circle is twenty years old this year. The United States of America is just ten times that age, celebrating its 200th birthday in 1976. To mark both anniversaries Sligo’s resident Theatre Company has selected Richard Rogers’ and Oscar Hammerstein’s classic musical “Oklahoma 9by arrangement with Chappell & Co. Ltd.) The US in return […]
Synge’s Christy Mahon gets rid of his Da by hitting him with a loy. At least that’s what he thinks until the old man turns up again to plague him. Similarly Hugh Leonard’s Charlie Tynan thinks he is rid of his Da when he has buried him. But it’ snot as simple as that.! The […]
Next Tuesday John Mc Gahern will officially open Sligo Drama Circle’s season of summer theatre in Sligo Town Hall. Although summer theatre is now only part of the circle’s programme of plays, which stretches from March to November, the summer theatre is still the shop window of the group’s activities, taking in as it does […]
Sligo Drama Circle continue on their uninterrupted bi-weekly performance schedule at the Town Hall with “The Speckled Shin” which is produced by Eily Kilgannon. This cabaret-style entertainment was first performed in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, in May 1973 during the second Sligo cultural weekend in Dublin. It was given a rapturous reception by the Dublin […]
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 […]