Now in its 61st year, Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre this November with its production of the Noel Coward classic comedy “PRESENT LAUGHTER”. First staged in 1942, the play surrounds Garry Essendine, a self-obsessed actor who is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Before he embarks on a tour […]
Footage has been unearthed of a rehearsal of our production of Robert Bolt’s “A Man For All Seasons”, an outdoor production from 1979 which took place in the Peace Park, or the Retreat House Gardens as it was known at the time. It ran from Sunday June 19th to Friday June 23rd, 1979. The cast […]
Back in April, Sligo Drama Circle staged “Wasn’t it a Full Life” in Sligo Courthouse. Based around the events of the 1916 Easter Rising, this piece was specially researched and written by director, Michael Leyden. Now, this show is coming to Ballymote, Co. Sligo for one night only, Thursday September 29th. In “Wasn’t It A Full […]
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 […]
An historic first for Sligo Drama Circle will take place when we stage “Wasn’t it a Full Life” in Sligo Courthouse from Tuesday April 26th – Friday April 29th at 8:00 p.m in Sligo Courthouse. Based around the events of the 1916 Easter Rising, this piece has been specially researched and written by director, Michael […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre this March to celebrate 60 years of amateur drama in Sligo with its production of the late Brian Friel classic “TRANSLATIONS”. The action of the play takes place in August 1833 in the Irish-speaking community of the townland of Baile Beag in Co. […]
Huge congrats to Patrick Curley and the team behind the play “Beneath the Bone Moon” for making it to the Dublin Theatre Fringe Fest in September. An earlier version of the play was first staged in the Drama Circle space in the Market Yard in October 2013. This updated version is now set for a […]
On Saturday August 1st, 2015, Sligo Drama Circle took part in the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company’s “A Country Under Wave” project by staging a rehearsed reading of the W.B. Yeats play “The King’s Threshold”. Part of this project was to stage all 26 Yeats plays in 26 different locations in Sligo and its environs over the course […]
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 […]
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 […]