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 […]
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 […]
We have collected quite a number of photographs of productions from our almost 60 year history and posted them in our online Gallery on this website. We have images of stage sets, rehearsal photos, promotion shots, as well as scans of posters, flyers, tickets and programmes for shows down through the years. We will continue […]
Over the past couple of years, Sligo Drama Circle has been endeavouring to collect as many photographs as possible in connection with its history and especially photographs of past productions. The collection of photographs that have been collected so far can be seen in the Gallery. If you have photographs pertaining to the Drama Circle, […]
Mayor of Sligo, Tom Mc Sharry accorded a Civic Reception to the Sligo Drama Circle on Thursday November 16th, 2006 to mark their 50th Anniversary. Members and friends gathered in the Mayor’s Parlour in City Hall where they were greeted on arrival by the Mayor. Refreshments were served and lots of reminiscing was done. Mayor […]
Sligo Drama Circle is celebrating its 50th birthday this year and has compiled a collection of photographs, posters, programmes, tickets and other memorabilia. The exhibition was displayed in the foyer of the Hawk’s Well Theatre in June 2006 during the production of “The Memory of Water” and was a great success. The exhibition returned to […]
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 […]