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 […]
After the huge success of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November 2024, Sligo Drama Circle is delighted to announce that our Spring 2025 production, also in the Hawk’s Well Theatre, will be John B. Keane’s acclaimed debut play, “SIVE”. We last performed this play in 2010, so […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre this February/March with a reprise of its production of the John B. Keane classic “BIG MAGGIE”. Set in rural 1960’s Ireland, in a society that values prayer, property, land and keeping up appearances above all else, recently widowed Maggie Polpin’s plan to assert […]
Sligo Drama Circle is delighted to announce that we are continuing our 60th Anniversary celebrations with a production of John B Keane’s classic drama Big Maggie in the Hawk’s Well Theatre from November 8 – 12. Set in rural 1960’s Ireland, in a society that values prayer, property, land and keeping up appearances above all […]
Our revival of our 2013 hit comedy “MOLL” by John B. Keane returns to the Hawk’s Well Theatre from July 7th to 11th. Such was the reaction to this staple of the Irish canon that we have been really anxious to re-create the parish presbytery on stage again. MOLL is a clasic Irish comedy and […]
Sligo Drama Circle is delighted to announce the return of their huge hit comedy from 2013, MOLL. This John B. Keane classic comedy received hugely positive feedback from audiences when it last played the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November 2013. MOLL is set to return to the Hawk’s Well this July and it should appeal […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre this November for its autumn production of John B. Keane’s hit comedy “MOLL”. The play is set in a typically rural Irish presbytery in the 1970s where the Parish Priest, Canon Pratt, and his two curates Fr. Brest and Fr. Loran reside. With […]
Sligo Drama Circle continue to attract large audiences to the Hawk’s Well with their production of “Moll” which concludes this Saturday night. Their autumn staging of John B. Keane’s hit comedy has been filling seats at the Temple Street venue since it opened on Tuesday night. The play is set in a typically rural Irish […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the Town Hall for its Summer Theatre on Tuesday July 11th with a revival of John B. Keane’s tragic-comedy “Sive”. This All-Ireland winning drama in Athlone in 1959 should prove a popular choice among visitors and locals alike and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout July and into August. […]
“Moll” by John B. Keane was performed in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November, 2013. This video slideshow features photographs of the set on the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo.
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 […]