Peg O’ My Heart by J. Hartley Manners was performed in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in July, 2013. This “cinematic trailer” was used to promote the show.
During the 1990’s Sligo Drama Circle participated in the Mid & North-West Radio Drama Awards. The following plays were performed as radio plays during the period: 1994 The Return by Kenny Donagher 1995 Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge 1996 The Long and the Short of It by Rita Ann Bourke 1997 The […]
New talent will be on stage during this year’s season of short plays by Sligo Drama Circle. It is the first year the group has run three shows in three weeks and director Ultan Burke said the focus was on getting new faces involved. They held auditions in September and seven new recruits were found. […]
Memories of the early days of one of Sligo’s longest running drama groups will return when they stage an exhibition on Saturday. Sligo Drama Circle will display a pictorial history of their 56-year existence in an exhibition in the Market Yard on Saturday afternoon from 1pm to 5pm. The drama group has accumulated a wealth […]
Sligo Drama Circle, celebrating fifty years of drama in Sligo, represents the best tradition of drama in Ireland’s North-West. From very humble beginnings in the 1950’s where many Sligo people got the chance to tread the boards of Sligo Town Hall, to the present day where young and old have the chance to grace the […]
Sligo Drama Circle, celebrating fifty years of drama in Sligo, represents the best tradition of drama in Ireland’s North-West. From very humble beginnings in the 1950’s where many Sligo people got the chance to tread the boards of Sligo Town Hall, to the present day where young and old have the chance to grace the […]
Having spent his whole career in the classroom teaching secondary school students, one would think that, having retired some years ago, the last place John Caheny could be found would be in the middle of a rowdy bunch of students with their sights set on Oxford and Cambridge. John has not, however, come out of […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre this week with its new production of Alan Bennett’s “The History Boys”. Set in a fictitious Sheffield Grammar school, the play won three Laurence Olivier Awards in the West end in 2005 as well as winning six Tony Awards on Broadway. It was […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre this March for its new production of Alan Bennett’s “The History Boys”. Set in a fictitious Sheffield Grammar school, the play centres itself around the plight of eight teenage boys who are trying to gain admission to Oxbridge. Showing the interaction between the […]
IN THE BEGINNING Sligo Drama Circle made its bow to the public for the first time on Sunday night, November 18th 1956. The Town Hall in Sligo was the venue for their presentation of Gerard Healy’s “Thy Dear Father”. However, the seeds of the Drama Circle were sown in the existing Sligo Unknown Players, a […]
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 […]