Sligo Drama Circle makes a welcome return to the Hawk’s Well with a new production of “Juno and the Paycock” this week. Under experienced director, Frankie Brannigan, this ever popular O’ Casey classic runs from tonight (Wednesday) to Friday February 18th (excluding Sunday 13th) nightly at 8.30pm. Set in a Dublin tenement house in 1922, […]
The classic comedy “Blithe Spirit” continues at the Hawk’s Well for four nights, from Thursday 18th to Sunday 21st inclusive. But theatre-goers take note, there’s no performance tonight (Wednesday 17th). Instead Jack and the Lads hold centre stage elsewhere! For an evening of fun and all round dramatic entertainment, “Blithe Spirit” qualifies admirably. This light-hearted […]
“Blithe Spirit”, which makes its first ever appearance at the Hawk’s Well on Tuesday, November 16th, represents one of Noel Coward’s brightest, and most popular dramas. Billed as an improbable farce, this light-hearted romantic comedy achieved instant classic status on its first West End appearance in 1941. Now the Sligo Drama Circle, with the experienced […]
The Sligo Drama Circle production of ‘The Plough and the Stars’ returns to the Hawks Well Theatre for eight nights only from Monday 3rd to Monday 10th August, inclusively. This great O’ Casey classic, colourful and one-time controversial, had a spectacularly successful spring run, so any patrons unable to gain a seat then, have a […]
Sligo Drama Circle return to the Hawk’s Well next week with “The Plough and the Stars” . Under the experienced hand of director Frank Brannigan and this ever-popular O’ Casey classic, runs from Wednesday 26th February to Saturday 7th March, excluding Sunday. Frank Brannigan’s name is synonymous with the Profile Theatre Company with whom he […]
1991 is a big year for Sligo author John Kavanagh. During the summer his first book of poems “Etchings” was published by Salmon Publishing of Galway to critical acclaim and now Sligo Drama Circle is about to give a reading of his first play “A Savage Humility” in the Hawk’s Well Theatre on Tuesday 12th […]
The Sligo Drama Circle returns to the Hawk’s Well Theatre with eight consecutive performances of the Seán O’ Casey classic “The Shadow of a Gunman”. (August 5th to August 12th inclusive) This entertaining and satirical play is the first of the famous “Dublin Trilogy”, the others “Juno” and “The Plough” also had successful productions in […]
‘Summertime and the living is easy’ – isn’t exactly what you’ll hear S.D.C. Director, Walter Mc Donagh, chirping during this holiday season. Living indeed is easy if you’re lazing languidly on the sun drenched decks of the ‘St. Louis Princess’ as you glide down by the ‘Gateway Arch’, swept on by mighty Mississippi, a mega-sized […]
Sligo Drama Circle members have just returned from the United States following a much acclaimed performance in St. Louis, Missouri, of the Seán O’ Casey classic “Juno and the Paycock”. The St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, in a review, described the Sligo group’s production as “good – often very good”. The newspaper’s theatre critic, Joe Pollack, […]
Sligo Drama Circle’s “Juno and the Paycock” currently playing to packed houses at Sligo’s Hawk’s Well Theatre, is to play in St. Louis Missouri, on St. Patrick’s weekend. Walter Mc Donagh’s production has won a new place in the history of Sligo theatre by being invited to play in the 740 seater St. Louis venue […]
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 […]