Twenty one years at the top is a long time for a theatre company by Sligo Drama Circle has been right up there since its foundation in 1956. To celebrate its coming of age and to open the 1977 Summer Season, the Circle has chosen Brendan Behan’s “The Hostage” which goes on in the Town […]
There’s no business like show business – and there isn’t a musical production that can match Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma” in illustrating that point. And that’s just one reason why Sligo Drama Circle, celebrating their 20th birthday this year, decided that “Oklahoma” would be their first venture into the full musical field. Another reason, of […]
Sligo Drama Circle is twenty years old this year. The United States of America is just ten times that age, celebrating its 200th birthday in 1976. To mark both anniversaries Sligo’s resident Theatre Company has selected Richard Rogers’ and Oscar Hammerstein’s classic musical “Oklahoma 9by arrangement with Chappell & Co. Ltd.) The US in return […]
Synge’s Christy Mahon gets rid of his Da by hitting him with a loy. At least that’s what he thinks until the old man turns up again to plague him. Similarly Hugh Leonard’s Charlie Tynan thinks he is rid of his Da when he has buried him. But it’ snot as simple as that.! The […]
Next Tuesday John Mc Gahern will officially open Sligo Drama Circle’s season of summer theatre in Sligo Town Hall. Although summer theatre is now only part of the circle’s programme of plays, which stretches from March to November, the summer theatre is still the shop window of the group’s activities, taking in as it does […]
Sligo Drama Circle continue on their uninterrupted bi-weekly performance schedule at the Town Hall with “The Speckled Shin” which is produced by Eily Kilgannon. This cabaret-style entertainment was first performed in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, in May 1973 during the second Sligo cultural weekend in Dublin. It was given a rapturous reception by the Dublin […]
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” has collected another consignment of awards on the Drama Festival circuit. Sligo Drama Circle won the first prize in the open competition – the Festival Silver Challenge Cup – at Ballyshannon Drama Festival which closed on last Sunday night. The adjudicator, Mr. John Knipe, a well-known figure on the […]
By winning the premier award at Claremorris Drama Festival within days of sweeping the honours at Tubbercurry, Sligo Drama Circle have now qualified for the All-Ireland finals to be held in Athlone in April. The best actress award at Claremorris was won by Deirdre Gallagher for her role as “Big Mamma” in the Drama Circle’s […]
Sligo Drama Circle launch their 1975 Theatre season with a Gala First Night Performance of the famous Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. In this Women’s International Year, the season will be officially opened by Housewife of the Year, Mrs Freda Rooney. Next Tuesday night will be a landmark in Sligo’s theatre […]
This month, Sligo Drama Circle commences its biggest ever project with the launching of round-the-year theatre for Sligo. A varied programme of plays by leading writers will be performed over a twelve month span in Sligo Town Hall – in response to overwhelming public demand. Said Mr. Liam Mc Kinney, announcing the project: “The idea […]
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 the Launch Day event for Vintage Glamour Day, a fund-raising collaboration between North-West Hospice and Sligo Races, our resident costumier, Máire Hynes, was challenged to create a vintage costume from old curtains! Máire selected a pair of curtains donated to the North-West Hospice shop and reimagined, recycled and reused them to create […]
We were delighted to support North-West Hospice in their fund-raising venture, Vintage Glamour Day, in association with Sligo Races. We attended a Launch Day in vintage costume at Sligo Racecourse to promote the special fund-raising day. A promo video and some photographs were taken on the day to raise awareness of the upcoming race meet. […]
We are delighted to announce and acknowledge Sligo Credit Union for their generous support of Sligo Drama Circle through their Community Fund. Their contribution will go toward our commemorative historical book celebrating our 70th anniversary, which will be published next year. Sligo Credit Union’s Community Fund was set up to support projects in the Sligo/Leitrim […]
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 the Launch Day event for Vintage Glamour Day, a fund-raising collaboration between North-West Hospice and Sligo Races, our resident costumier, Máire Hynes, was challenged to create a vintage costume from old curtains! Máire selected a pair of curtains donated to the North-West Hospice shop and reimagined, recycled and reused them to create […]
We were delighted to support North-West Hospice in their fund-raising venture, Vintage Glamour Day, in association with Sligo Races. We attended a Launch Day in vintage costume at Sligo Racecourse to promote the special fund-raising day. A promo video and some photographs were taken on the day to raise awareness of the upcoming race meet. […]
We are delighted to announce and acknowledge Sligo Credit Union for their generous support of Sligo Drama Circle through their Community Fund. Their contribution will go toward our commemorative historical book celebrating our 70th anniversary, which will be published next year. Sligo Credit Union’s Community Fund was set up to support projects in the Sligo/Leitrim […]