Those who saw “Arms and the Man” as presented by Sligo Drama Circle in the current production at the Town Hall will agree with me when I state that Shaw’s famous comedy has improved with age and it is just as popular and pertinent today as when it was first staged in 1894. In this, […]
Tonight (Thursday July 12th) brings down the curtain on what has been probably Sligo Drama Circle’s most successful opening summer play to date. “The Country Boy” has been playing to increasingly large houses since Brian Friel opened Summer Season Seventy Three on June 26th, and while it is almost certain to return to the Town […]
A well merited dual success was scored by the Sligo Drama Circle at the Festival when they won the premier award, the Canon Gildea Trophy in the open three-act section for their presentation of “The Crucible”, the classic of the American theatre by Arthur Miller, and also took the Committee’s Silver Cup in the open […]
“The Man born to be King” received a tremendous first night reception from a capacity audience at Sligo’s Holy Cross Priory last night when the play depicting the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ began a week-long run. The production not alone marks the end of an era so far as the Dominican Order […]
Sligo Drama Circle Producer, Liam Mc Kinney, has reason to be optimistic if he hopes to retain the Esso Trophy, the All-Ireland Premier Drama Award, this year. Last season, the town was taken by storm with “A Streetcar Named Desire” but “Death of a Salesman” which was staged in the Town Hall, Sligo, last weekend […]
Sligo Drama Circle must be hotly tipped for festival honours again this season because their presentation of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, seen by capacity audiences in Sligo Town Hall on four nights last week, was simply superb. It was the most realistic and captivating production to come before the Sligo theatre fans […]
Sligo Drama Circle gained a notable success at the All-Ireland Drama Festival at Athlone when Walter Mc Donagh’s production of “Purgatory” (W. B. Yeats) took the major award in the one-act section. The two characters were played by Lionel Gallagher, The Boy, and Eddie Fitzpatrick, The Old Man. The play also won the production award. […]
Sligo Drama Circle have swept the boards from three out of four drama festivals with their production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” and with premier awards from Tubbercurry, Cavan and Ballyshannon, their nomination to the Athlone festival has been secured with more points than is necessary. It will be the first time in six […]
The Sligo Drama Circle, presenting “The Playboy of the Western World” (J.M. Synge), swept the boards at the Ulster Drama Festival in the Grand Opera House, Belfast, on Saturday night last when they were awarded the Grand Opera House Perpetual Challenge Cup, taking the trophy to the 26 counties for the first time ever, and […]
Summer theatre came to Sligo for the first time ever when, for three nights, in the Town Hall there was a Sligo group production of J. M. Synge’s classic “The Playboy of the Western World”. Even though the presentation was held in connection with the sixth annual Yeats International Summer School, the staging of 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 […]