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 […]
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 […]
Sligo Drama Circle carried off the major prize at the All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone at the weekend with their production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. It was the Drama Circle’s first-ever victory in the competition after nine appearances in the final, on three of which hey were beaten into second place. At […]
Sligo Drama Circle will give local theatre-goers another opportunity to see their prize-winning production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams when they present the play in Sligo Town Hall on Wednesday & Thursday of next week prior to their bid for national honours at the Eighteenth All-Ireland Amateur Drama Festival in Athlone. The […]
For the first time ever since it was offered for competition in 1953, the Grand Opera House Perpetual Challenge Cup came south of the border from the Opera House, Belfast, when it was won by the Sligo Drama Circle last Saturday night. Their presentation of “The Playboy of the Western World” at the Ulster Drama […]
Sligo Drama Circle were within one mark of winning the Esso Trophy – he Premier Award – at the All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone on Sunday night last. Their production, “My Three Angels”, also entered in the two or more act open section, was only one mark behind the winners, The Newpoint Players, Newry, with […]
After a brilliant run on the Festival circuit, Sligo Drama Circle returns to Sligo Town Hall with Sartre’s “Men Without Shadows” on Saturday 27th April and Monday 29th April. On the following Wednesday, May 1st, the group will be on stage in Athlone in the All-Ireland finals for which “Men Without Shadows” qualified with the […]
For the third time since 1970 when they won the Esso Supreme Trophy, Sligo Drama Circle were Runners-Up in the All-Ireland Drama Festival held in Athlone. “Men Without Shadows” by Jean Paul Sartre, this year’s play, proved to be the most provocative of the ten day festival and if one is to judge by the […]
A fair few hackles were raised on Wednesday night by Sligo Drama Circle’s production of Sartre’s “Men Without Shadows”, with a number of people leaving the hall rather than continue to endure the psychological and physical brutality on the stage. Myself, I was hugely impressed, having gone along fearing the worst and then getting the […]
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. […]
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 […]