Sligo has been chosen as one of the venues for the Amateur Drama League of Ireland National Festival. The event will take place in the theatre of the Regional College from April 20th to 29th and will be the last such staged before the final in Mullingar from May 8th to 18th. Sligo Drama Circle […]
Sligo Drama Circle announced yesterday that the group will be participating in the new National Theatre Festival and will be travelling to three A.D.L. festivals in the March – April period. This will be the first time in five years that the Circle will become involved in competition and the move is all the more […]
“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 […]
By winning the premier award at Claremorris Drama Festival within days of sweeping the honours at Tubbercurry, Sligo Drama Circle have now qualified for the All-Ireland finals to be held in Athlone in April. The best actress award at Claremorris was won by Deirdre Gallagher for her role as “Big Mamma” in the Drama Circle’s […]
After winning the All-Ireland one-act play section in Naas with “The Pot of Broth”, the Sligo Drama Circle proved once again that they rank with the best in Irish amateur drama by finishing runners-up in the Drama Finals in Athlone with “The Crucible”. The premier award, the Esso Trophy, was won by the Strand Players […]
Members of Sligo Drama Circle were photographed with some of their trophies before they travelled to Athlone last week to stage “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller at this year’s All-Ireland Drama Festival where, last year, the group won the premier award, the Esso Trophy. And this year, they were again in the award […]
It was Sligo’s night at the Western Drama Festival in St. Brigid’s Hall, Tubbercurry, last Sunday when Sligo Drama Circle carried off the top three-act award with Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, and Liam Mc Kinney was awarded the Jim Wynne Trophy for the Premier Production of the festival. The group secured twelve points […]
Sligo Drama Circle carried off the major prize at the All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone at the weekend with their production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the Drama Circle’s first-ever victory in the competition after nine appearances in the final, on three of which hey were beaten into second place. At […]
Sligo Drama Circle will give local theatre-goers another opportunity to see their prize-winning production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams when they present the play in Sligo Town Hall on Wednesday & Thursday of next week prior to their bid for national honours at the Eighteenth All-Ireland Amateur Drama Festival in Athlone. The […]
The Sligo Drama Circle made a clean sweep at Cavan Drama Festival last night by winning the premier award with “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, while two members of the cast, Joan Fitzpatrick and Shane Cleary, were awarded more medals for best performances. The producer was Liam Mc Kinney and 92 marks were […]
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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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 […]
We are in the process of writing a book on the history of Sligo Drama Circle over the past almost 70 years. We have been gathering information, photographs and lots more to be included in the book. We also wanted to give our audiences an opportunity to have an input into the book by sharing […]
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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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 […]
We are in the process of writing a book on the history of Sligo Drama Circle over the past almost 70 years. We have been gathering information, photographs and lots more to be included in the book. We also wanted to give our audiences an opportunity to have an input into the book by sharing […]