Paying tribute to Dr. Micheál Mac Liammóir, guest of honour at a sherry reception launching Sligo Drama Circle’s Summer Theatre 1972, Mr. Desmond Rushe, of the “Irish Independent”, who officially opened the season, said that interest in the theatre in the Irish countryside had been created and nurtured by the touring companies of the late […]
“Performances laid on specially for tourists achieve a spurious or phoney air, and are usually very bleak affairs, culturally speaking”, said Mr. Christopher Fitz-Simon, Bord Fáilte Éireann, at the opening of “Summer Theatre ’71” in Sligo Town Hall. He was speaking on the opening night of the season at a reception given by Sligo Drama […]
Rehearsals for Sligo Drama Circle’s season of Summer Theatre have now reached an advanced stage and the first play of the season will be Brian Friel’s “Lovers” which will be presented in Sligo Town Hall on Wednesday night, June 30th. I learned yesterday afternoon hat it is planned to have a gala opening night to […]
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, […]
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 […]
Summer theatre came to Sligo for the first time ever when, for three nights, in the Town Hall there was a Sligo group production of J. M. Synge’s classic “The Playboy of the Western World”. Even though the presentation was held in connection with the sixth annual Yeats International Summer School, the staging of a […]
Dear Sir, While on a visit to my childhood home, I went to “Philadelphia, Here I Come”. And found the hall half filled with goodly train, Some nuns and clerics, and the Mayor with chain. The kindliness, the humour and good sense, I saw on all sides of the audience. The Irish gleam I […]
Not too long ago I said to someone, “You couldn’t drag me to one of those ‘Little Theatre – Drama Club’ whatever you call it performances, not on your Nelly”. To make a ridiculous story short, I got dragged, and now I am eating humble pie, very humble. I was taken to see a performance […]
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
... Read More
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
... Read More
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 […]