Imagine a play where two of the four characters spend all their time in dustbins! No – it’s not something from the Muppets, just a play by Sam Beckett called “Endgame” which will be getting its North-Western premiere this coming week in Sligo. It’s also the first theatre production to take place at The Venue, […]
The thought of a Samuel Beckett play in Sligo is a rather daunting one. Even the most straight-forward productions by Sligo Drama Circle in the past have met with very poor audience response so it is difficult to imagine Beckett having any more attraction. That is the reality of the situation in Sligo, although the […]
It was standing room only at The Venue, Strandhill when “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett completed a three day run. An audience of more than 160, few of whom had seen a Beckett play before, expressed their enthusiasm with prolonged applause and glowing post-curtain comments. The laughed uproaringly at the slapstick humour which came as a […]
It was with a heavy conscience that I visited Kevin Flynn’s “Venue” on Tuesday night where Sligo Drama Circle members staged Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”. This summer the Circle have given Sligo audiences two other works, “The Tailor and Ansty” and “Letters of a Matchmaker”, both of which deserved reviews in this column. Such enterprise is […]
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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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 […]
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Sligo Drama Circle took place on Monday May 27th in the Drama Centre, Market Yard Sligo. Many thanks to all who took the trouble to attend the meeting and support the Drama Circle in its work. Both the outgoing Chairperson Máire Hynes and Secretary Fintan Whelan outlined the activities […]
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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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 […]
Yeats Day is celebrated annually in Sligo and around the world on the date of his birthday, June 13th. The day is an opportunity to focus on and celebrate the poetry of this Nobel prize-winning poet. Sligo is central to the celebrations of this day as it was the landscape of the area which so […]