Members of Sligo Drama Circle, already in rehearsals for their Summer Season 1973 have a particularly busy few weeks ahead of them just now. On Thursday of this week (May 17th) the group plays host to the Ballina Players who present “The Patrick Pearse Motel” in Summerhill College, Sligo. This modern satirical comedy of the […]
Presentation Committee The presentation committee wish to state that, because of difficulties arising out of the vast need of this year’s set, the co-operation of everyone involved in the play is needed. It is of paramount importance that all the actors, regardless of sex and disposition, help with the moving of flats and properties, the […]
Everything Looks Red Through Rose-Tinted Glasses Arriving at Jury’s – with not a judge in sight – I was confronted by a spectacle that made my eyes water. (cigarette smoke) having made my way through the haze of nicotine, I came upon the wondrous sight of a Scotsman flaying elderly residents with his shillelagh and […]
When I dropped in recently to see how “The Crucible” was progressing in Scoil Ursula, I made the startling discovery that “Rehearsal – Drama Circle Style” was a totally new innovation. It was no longer an artificial situation where people came together to practice “saying and doing”. Instead, we had “Drama of a Non-Theatrical” nature […]
With the departure of “The Country Boy”, except of course, for the half-whispered promise of a look into “Sharon’s Grave” and maybe the belated arrival of a “Witness for the Prosecution”, the play-going season in Sligo has ended for the year. What kind of season was it? Except for the promise of joy and fulfilment […]
Mr. Denis Franks, the well-known Shakespearean lecturer and writer, had some harsh things to say about the Irish drama movement when he lectured in Sligo last week on “Shakespeare without Tears”. He thought that the talk about the revival of the drama movement in Ireland was bogus and held the view that the standard of […]
Sligo has always enjoyed a reputation in the amateur theatrical world. Many years ago the Temperance Dramatic Society, under the direction of the late John Monson, performed many successful plays, but their big achievement came as a result of the presentation of the musical play “Flowers of the Forest”. The Sligo Catholic Institute presented many […]
Sligo Drama Circle was founded in 1956. Since then, it has presented plays by major Irish, European and American playwrights. Drama Circle productions have won the premier awards at all the major drama festivals in the west and North West, while Summer Theatre has become an established part of Sligo’s tourist season. For it’s 50th […]
Sligo Drama Circle go into action again on February 24th when, at Sligo Town Hall, they will give Sligo audiences a preview of this year’s festival production. The choice this season is John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”, which has been adapted for the stage from the original short story. “Of Mice and Men” is […]
Bernard Shaw’s “Candida” is a somewhat sophisticated play to be attempted by an amateur group, English in format that is difficult needing an extremely polished presentation. It is also so essentially for Irish actors to carry off the characters. Sligo Drama Circle’s presentation of the play, somehow got over most of these problems, though there […]
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 […]