“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 […]
Sligo Drama Circle, now in its 54th year, presents John B. Keane’s “Sive” from October 27th to the 30th inclusive. Directed by Fintan Whelan and set against the harsh poverty and difficult times of the 1950’s, the play tells the story of a young 18 year old girl Sive, who lives with her uncle, his […]
It is almost impossible for us in the Sligo Drama Circle to believe that Eddie Fitzpatrick is dead – has made his final exit. Eddie meant a lot to the Circle and to everyone in it. As an actor he had star quality. He could easily have made it onto the professional stage had he […]
The interior wall of our Market Yard premises has been knocked and much more space is now available for future activities there. Planned is “An Evening with Mortimer” consisting of readings from two of John Mortimer’s better known one-act plays, “Lunch Hour” and “The Dock Brief”. We hope to have further information about this in […]
The age-old adage that love will find a way and the unsavoury practice of matchmaking could scarcely go hand in hand. The latter is a succinct introduction to marriage and the asymmetrical harmony of life thereafter all to frequently makes for bitter tragedy. The exigency of this morbid practice was fully brought home to Sligo […]
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 […]