Sligo Drama Circle continue to attract large audiences to the Hawk’s Well with their production of “Moll” which concludes this Saturday night. Their autumn staging of John B. Keane’s hit comedy has been filling seats at the Temple Street venue since it opened on Tuesday night. The play is set in a typically rural Irish […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the Town Hall for its Summer Theatre on Tuesday July 11th with a revival of John B. Keane’s tragic-comedy “Sive”. This All-Ireland winning drama in Athlone in 1959 should prove a popular choice among visitors and locals alike and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout July and into August. […]
Sligo Drama Circle’s Autumn production at the Town Hall is Ray Cooney’s hilarious farce “Chase Me Comrade”. It involves all the thrills and spills of concealing a Russian ballet dancer who plans to defect to the West. There is a series of mistaken identity in which everybody suspects everybody else and soon a chase develops […]
A play opened in Sligo Town Hall last week which has never been off the stage, never been out of production, for 200 years. It is Oliver Goldsmith’s bewitching comedy “She Stoops to Conquer”. The script of “She Stoops to Conquer” was originally rejected by Garrick of Covent Garden. Garrick and Coleman were the leading […]
On Tuesday night in the Town Hall, the curtain rose on Sligo Drama Circle’s production of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest”. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a farce of perfect charm. For brilliancy of wit and for the perfection of its construction, it may fairly be ranked with the very greatest […]
“Passes in the Night” by Kevin P. Grattan, which opened Sligo Drama Circle’s Summer Season, turned out to be a surprisingly controversial play which generated much discussion on the opening night. Some older people were shocked, thinking the events in the play were improbable. Most younger people, however, thoroughly enjoyed the play and were able […]
Sligo people may not be too familiar with the name Bob Larby. Many would be surprised however at how much they know and admire about his work. Bob Larby being one of the most successful and prolific TV comedy writers. He has written or co-written such household favourites as “Please Sir”, “Fenn Street Gang”, “The […]
Sligo Drama Circle presents “Night Must Fall” from Tuesday 12th to Saturday 16th February at 8:30pm. “Night Must Fall” is a tantalising detective thriller, full of murder, mystery, suspense and romance. Sligo’s own Walter Mc Donagh has been planning this revival for some time, one which he feels is long overdue. Back in 1956, Sligo’s […]
Now that the days have grown shorter and the nights longer, what better way to beat the pre-Christmas doldrums than a night out at the Hawk’s Well Theatre. And what better night out cold there be than “Oliver” the sparkling musical which Sligo Drama Circle presents from 11th to 21st of November at 8pm. Of […]
“Peg O’ My Heart”, that ageless melodrama, returns to the Hawk’s Well Theatre Sligo on Wednesday August 6th. Staged at that same venue some weeks ago, this comedy of a will, a waif and a set of wily relatives delighted audiences of both locals and tourists alike. This is the play that made a fortune […]
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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We in Sligo Drama Circle were saddened to hear of the passing of Joe Meehan last Friday. Joe was a long-standing member of Sligo Drama Circle and was active in many roles within the group over many decades. Joe’s involvement with Sligo Drama Circle probably dates back to the 1960s and from then on, Joe […]
Archival Video Footage Unearthed
We have recently come across some video footage of an interview from 1966 with the then Chairman of Sligo Drama Circle, Eddie Fitzpatrick. The footage appears to take place in the Town Hall as the group are in rehearsal for a production of John Millington Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” in which Eddie […]
We are currently in the process of compiling a book on the history of Sligo Drama Circle. We have a fairly extensive archive of articles, photos and programmes from throughout our history. So, we decided that the time was right to try to gather all of this material together into book format. As part of […]
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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We in Sligo Drama Circle were saddened to hear of the passing of Joe Meehan last Friday. Joe was a long-standing member of Sligo Drama Circle and was active in many roles within the group over many decades. Joe’s involvement with Sligo Drama Circle probably dates back to the 1960s and from then on, Joe […]
As a treat for this time of the year, we have recorded 12 different seasonal poems all with a Christmas theme. We have done this before for Yeats Day each year and have also recently recorded the seasonal play “A Christmas Carol” which you can listen to HERE Following on from the success of these […]
Archival Video Footage Unearthed
We have recently come across some video footage of an interview from 1966 with the then Chairman of Sligo Drama Circle, Eddie Fitzpatrick. The footage appears to take place in the Town Hall as the group are in rehearsal for a production of John Millington Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” in which Eddie […]