Sligo Drama Circle, founded in August 1956, with a membership of ten, had their initial production, Gerard Healy’s “Thy Dear Father”. They were runners up in the three act open class in Athlone in 1957 (Ballyshannon nomination). Louis Dalton’s “Money Doesn’t Matter” was their choice in 1958. The best actor and actress awards at Ballyshannon […]
Over the past couple of years, Sligo Drama Circle has been endeavouring to collect as many photographs as possible in connection with its history and especially photographs of past productions. The collection of photographs that have been collected so far can be seen in the Gallery. If you have photographs pertaining to the Drama Circle, […]
Have you ever looked out the window at the rain falling and felt glad to be inside, warm and comfortable …….. where the boundaries are known? But then again, maybe it’s different and you feel slightly trapped, stuck on the inside and out there life is happening? Were the walls built to keep you safe […]
Sligo Drama Circle Young People’s Theatre Group presented their new play You Are Here (But Who Are You?) in The Factory Performance Space on Thursday 14th, Friday 15th, Saturday 16th December, 2006. The Performance lasted approximately one hour. This was a cast improvised production consisting of an absurd series of modern tales exploring different aspects […]
“In Just Spring” is a performance using Mask and Movement, created through improvisation, exploring the foibles, struggles (heroic and otherwise), and joys of humanity, seen through the eyes of young people ‘when the world is mad and luscious’. Following their highly successful production “Ed and the Hat”, the Young People’s Theatre group continues to develop […]
“Ed and the Hat” is the first official production of the Sligo Drama Circle’s Young People’s Theatre group. It takes place on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th December 2005 at the Factory Performance Space at 8pm. It is a one-act play, created by the cast through improvisation and, while the shape and certain movements are […]
The Hostage, set in a Dublin lodging house of doubtful repute, crowds in tragedy and comedy, bitterness and love, caricature and portrayal, ribaldry and eloquence, patriotism and cynicism, symbolism and music-hall songs, all on top of one another, apparently higgledy-piggledy and yet combining wonderfully into a spiritual unity as well as being a witty and […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawks Well Theatre with the classic Neil Simon comedy “The Odd Couple” during the first week of May, 2012. Felix is getting divorced and moves in with Oscar but there were never two more ill-matched flatmates. Scenes of great humour surround the two characters, as well […]
Are you compatible with your partner? Will love last? Now you can find out with the help of the world renowned Trinity College Genetics department. Tempted? – well it’s easy and risk free. But maybe not for our five characters whose lives get turned upside down. Claire and Gerry – her new-found love; John Paul […]
Sligo Drama Circle is making final preparations to stage the popular Alan Bennett play, “The History Boys” in March 2011. The action of the play takes place in Cutlers’ Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys’ grammar school in the north of England. Set in the early 1980s, the play follows a group of history pupils […]
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 […]