After winning the All-Ireland one-act play section in Naas with “The Pot of Broth”, the Sligo Drama Circle proved once again that they rank with the best in Irish amateur drama by finishing runners-up in the Drama Finals in Athlone with “The Crucible”. The premier award, the Esso Trophy, was won by the Strand Players […]
Now that Lent is at hand and amateur drama festival season is just around the corner, Sligo Drama Circle are preparing once again their festival play. After last year’s successful run with Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” the Circle is again relying on the same author. This year’s play, “The Crucible”, retells the story […]
Members of Sligo Drama Circle were photographed with some of their trophies before they travelled to Athlone last week to stage “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller at this year’s All-Ireland Drama Festival where, last year, the group won the premier award, the Esso Trophy. And this year, they were again in the award […]
It was Sligo’s night at the Western Drama Festival in St. Brigid’s Hall, Tubbercurry, last Sunday when Sligo Drama Circle carried off the top three-act award with Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, and Liam Mc Kinney was awarded the Jim Wynne Trophy for the Premier Production of the festival. The group secured twelve points […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]