“Moll” by John B. Keane was performed in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November, 2013. This video slideshow, featuring photographs of the production, was used to promote the show.
“Moll” by John B. Keane was performed in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November, 2013. This video podcast, featuring Micky Murray as Fr. Brest, was used to promote the show.
“Moll” by John B. Keane was performed in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November, 2013. This “cinematic trailer” was used to promote the show.
After ten months away from the Hawk’s Well stage, Sligo Drama Circle make a welcome return with a John B. Keane masterpiece. “The Year of the Hiker” is regarded as one of the Irish playwright’s finest works, exploring as it does the classic themes of outsiders, greed, jealousy and love. It will open at the […]
“It revolutionised the whole amateur drama scene”, a comment made about J. B. Keane’s “Sive”. Like all revolutions it had its growing pains having been initially rejected by the Abbey but engendering so much excitement in the Limerick audience of 1959, the year of its first performance, that the Gardaí had to be called out. […]
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 […]
Alderman Seán Mc Manus, Mayor, formally opened Sligo Drama Circle’s Summer Theatre in Sligo Town Hall on Thursday night last. He spoke of the need for visitor entertainment in the town and reminded the audience of Sligo’s long tradition in drama. He hoped this Summer Season was a first step towards establishing a Little Theatre […]
For some years past, the Sligo Drama Circle has presented a short season of plays during the Yeats Summer School. The plays have been enthusiastically received by the Summer School students and by other visitors to the town as well as by local playgoers. This has encouraged the Drama Circle to extend the season and, […]
In a curious way John B. Keane has created plays which, though written so recently, have already something of the quality of collector’s items. Keane, who owns a public house in Listowel – that breeding ground of literary people – has chosen in his plays to put characters on the stage who are shadows and […]
It was a pleasure to hear an audience laughing and enjoying themselves the way they did at the opening performance of John B. Keane’s “Many Young Men of Twenty” which is the first play of Sligo Drama Circle’s Spring season. Producer Manus Shiels has succeeded in giving us a play of music, fun and just […]
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 […]