Sligo Drama Circle carried off the major prize at the All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone at the weekend with their production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the Drama Circle’s first-ever victory in the competition after nine appearances in the final, on three of which hey were beaten into second place. At […]
Sligo Drama Circle will give local theatre-goers another opportunity to see their prize-winning production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams when they present the play in Sligo Town Hall on Wednesday & Thursday of next week prior to their bid for national honours at the Eighteenth All-Ireland Amateur Drama Festival in Athlone. The […]
The Sligo Drama Circle made a clean sweep at Cavan Drama Festival last night by winning the premier award with “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, while two members of the cast, Joan Fitzpatrick and Shane Cleary, were awarded more medals for best performances. The producer was Liam Mc Kinney and 92 marks were […]
Sligo Drama Circle won the major awards at the 26th annual Western Drama Festival which concluded in St. Brigid’s Hall, Tubbercurry, on Sunday night last. They were awarded the Festival’s premier award, presented by the late Very Rev. D. Canon Gildea, P.P. for their presentation of “The Glass Menagerie” (Tennessee Williams) while the producer, Liam […]
The Circle were doing work of National importance in promoting the Irish language or drama, said the Mayor of Sligo, Mr. Norbert Ferguson, when he attended the annual dinner of the Sligo Drama Circle, in the Sancta Maria Hotel, Strandhill. He said although people such as they, close to the national movement which started fifty […]
Rehearsals for the Sligo Drama Circle presentation of “The Man Who Came to Dinner” are now entering their final stages in the group’s new headquarters in the Market Yard. Under the eye of the producer Dolores Corr, the cast is putting the final polish on the seasonal and very funny comedy by the American authors, […]
For the first time ever since it was offered for competition in 1953, the Grand Opera House Perpetual Challenge Cup came south of the border from the Opera House, Belfast, when it was won by the Sligo Drama Circle last Saturday night. Their presentation of “The Playboy of the Western World” at the Ulster Drama […]
But there is no resting of their laurels for the members of the Drama Circle. And no off-season for drama in Sligo either. Immediately the members of the group commence rehearsals on the three Yeats one-act plays they will stage in Sligo Town Hall during the Yeats International Summer School next August. In previous years […]
The Sligo Drama Circle monthly newsletter discloses that the Circle has qualified for the Northern Ireland Festival finals at the Opera House, Belfast, in May, “but seems unlikely to squeeze into the All-Ireland Finals in Athlone next month”. The Circle competed at five festivals gaining one first place and four seconds. The surprising thing is […]
“The Sligo Drama Circle was missed on the Western Festival Circuit during the last two seasons”, stated Mr. Eddie Fitzpatrick, the newly elected Chairman, speaking at the annual general meeting of the Circle in the Imperial Hotel, Sligo. The All-Ireland winners, Tuam Theatre Guild and other leading dramatic groups had told him that the absence […]
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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Steel Magnolias Supporting Diabetes Ireland
Join us in the Hawk’s Well Theatre on Wednesday November 4th before the curtain rises on Steel Magnolias for Magnolias in Pink, a very special Opening Night Reception celebrating friendship, laughter and community. With all proceeds on the night going to Diabetes Ireland, it’s the perfect way to kick off an unforgettable evening of theatre […]
Treading the Boards – Book Launch
November 18th marks the 70th anniversary of the very first Sligo Drama Circle production, when we appeared on the stage of the Town Hall for our very first performance, “Thy Dear Father” by Gerard Healy. Now, Sligo Drama Circle is marking the occasion of our 70th Anniversary with the launch of a new book detailing […]
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 […]
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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“Treading the Boards – 70 Years of Sligo Drama Circle” will be launched at a special event in Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo on November 18th, the actual date of our 70th Anniversary. The book is a limited edition and is the culmination of three years of research. It is a large book with 94 chapters […]
Steel Magnolias Supporting Diabetes Ireland
Join us in the Hawk’s Well Theatre on Wednesday November 4th before the curtain rises on Steel Magnolias for Magnolias in Pink, a very special Opening Night Reception celebrating friendship, laughter and community. With all proceeds on the night going to Diabetes Ireland, it’s the perfect way to kick off an unforgettable evening of theatre […]
Sligo Drama Circle will mark its 70th Anniversary with “Stage Memories”, an exhibition of posters, programmes, photographs, costumes, props and memorabilia for Culture Night 2026. Join us in our Market Yard premises (beside Montmartre restaurant F91 EVK4) on Culture Night, Friday September 18th any time between 7-9pm and take a nostalgic look through our archives charting our dramatic journey […]