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 […]
Sligo Drama Circle swept the honours at the Tubbercurry Drama Festival with their production of Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. The Sligo production won the premier award – the Canon Gildea Trophy – in the open competition for full-length plays. The Jim Wynne Cup for the best producer was awarded to […]
It is paradoxical that in Ireland where religion plays such a major part in our lives, one of the few, if not the only great religious novel, should deal with the rejection of faith. James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is a description of a religious experience and as such […]
After a brilliant run on the Festival circuit, Sligo Drama Circle returns to Sligo Town Hall with Sartre’s “Men Without Shadows” on Saturday 27th April and Monday 29th April. On the following Wednesday, May 1st, the group will be on stage in Athlone in the All-Ireland finals for which “Men Without Shadows” qualified with the […]
This year saw the clash of giants and with some giants still to take the arena, Gerda Redlich could well bemoan the fact that so many of the shows she had already seen were so scintillatingly good. “It is so sad”, she said, “because only one of them can win”. In the event it was […]
For the third time since 1970 when they won the Esso Supreme Trophy, Sligo Drama Circle were Runners-Up in the All-Ireland Drama Festival held in Athlone. “Men Without Shadows” by Jean Paul Sartre, this year’s play, proved to be the most provocative of the ten day festival and if one is to judge by the […]
A fair few hackles were raised on Wednesday night by Sligo Drama Circle’s production of Sartre’s “Men Without Shadows”, with a number of people leaving the hall rather than continue to endure the psychological and physical brutality on the stage. Myself, I was hugely impressed, having gone along fearing the worst and then getting the […]
Sligo Drama Circle’s first offering for the newly-opened Spring Season of Plays in the Town Hall, Sligo, is Jean Paul Sartre’s “Men Without Shadows”. And it certainly got the new season off with a flourish. We entered the theatre to find ourselves enmeshed in a prison atmosphere where the authorities were just as much “the […]
Those who saw “Arms and the Man” as presented by Sligo Drama Circle in the current production at the Town Hall will agree with me when I state that Shaw’s famous comedy has improved with age and it is just as popular and pertinent today as when it was first staged in 1894. In this, […]
Tonight (Thursday July 12th) brings down the curtain on what has been probably Sligo Drama Circle’s most successful opening summer play to date. “The Country Boy” has been playing to increasingly large houses since Brian Friel opened Summer Season Seventy Three on June 26th, and while it is almost certain to return to the Town […]
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 […]