Sligo Drama Circle return to the Hawk’s Well next week with “The Plough and the Stars” . Under the experienced hand of director Frank Brannigan and this ever-popular O’ Casey classic, runs from Wednesday 26th February to Saturday 7th March, excluding Sunday. Frank Brannigan’s name is synonymous with the Profile Theatre Company with whom he […]
The Sligo Drama Circle returns to the Hawk’s Well Theatre with eight consecutive performances of the Seán O’ Casey classic “The Shadow of a Gunman”. (August 5th to August 12th inclusive) This entertaining and satirical play is the first of the famous “Dublin Trilogy”, the others “Juno” and “The Plough” also had successful productions in […]
‘Summertime and the living is easy’ – isn’t exactly what you’ll hear S.D.C. Director, Walter Mc Donagh, chirping during this holiday season. Living indeed is easy if you’re lazing languidly on the sun drenched decks of the ‘St. Louis Princess’ as you glide down by the ‘Gateway Arch’, swept on by mighty Mississippi, a mega-sized […]
Sligo Drama Circle members have just returned from the United States following a much acclaimed performance in St. Louis, Missouri, of the Seán O’ Casey classic “Juno and the Paycock”. The St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, in a review, described the Sligo group’s production as “good – often very good”. The newspaper’s theatre critic, Joe Pollack, […]
Sligo Drama Circle’s “Juno and the Paycock” currently playing to packed houses at Sligo’s Hawk’s Well Theatre, is to play in St. Louis Missouri, on St. Patrick’s weekend. Walter Mc Donagh’s production has won a new place in the history of Sligo theatre by being invited to play in the 740 seater St. Louis venue […]
Miss Eily Kilgannon, Chairman of the Publicity sub-committee announced the programme for Summer Theatre ’74. This year’s season will commence on June 25th with an official opening by Mr. Brendan O’ Brien of Athlone, President of the Amateur Council of Ireland, followed by “The Millionairess” by George Bernard Shaw. This is the fourth year in […]
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, […]
If ever a play proved that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, or that the more things change the more they remain the same, it’s “Juno and the Paycock”, the classic drama by Seán O’ Casey. It is set in 1922, but more than three generations later, Irishmen are […]
Last week, the Hawk’s Well Theatre hosted an interesting and novel evening’s drama which also afforded three young directors the opportunities of presenting their productions of one act plays, very much off the beaten track. These plays, which contrasted sharply from each other in many respects, varied from an infrequently performed piece by Seán O’ […]
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 […]