Ernest Daly, Strandhill, for whom Mr. F. P. Howley, solicitor, appeared, was charged at Sligo Court on Friday last before District Justice Barry, with carrying stage props on a lorry at Quay St. Sligo, on 9th March last while not having the required merchandise licence, and with failing to produce his insurance on the occasion. […]
The annual dinner of the Sligo Drama Circle was held in the Bonne Chere Restaurant, High St., Sligo, on Wednesday night of last week and was largely attended and proved to be a most enjoyable function. Mr. E. A. Mc Dermottroe, Chairman of the Drama Circle, presided and at the end of a most excellent […]
The Circle is reading “The Night of the Moon” by James White, at present and have decided to play it this season. Mr. White is a journalist with the “Irish Press” and normally writes under the Irish version of his name – Seamus de Faoite. Mr. Joe Flood will produce the play, but casting has […]
Sligo Drama Circle presented “Montserrat” before a large audience at Meath Drama Festival in Navan and the adjudicator, Mr. Harold Goldblatt, said the group was an excellent company, which, with a very effective setting, had the right atmosphere for this play. He commended the producers on their eye for detail and was particularly impressed by […]
This powerfully gripping play by Emmanuel Robles (adapted from the French by Lillian Hellman) turns back the pages of history by almost a century and a half, and brings the scene to the town of Valencia in the South American state of Venezuela, then under Spanish domination. The central figure is a young Spanish officer […]
Webster defines chemistry as “the science of the properties of substances elementary and compound, and the laws of their combination and action one upon the other”. If you want to see chemistry in action, though, go and see the final performances of Sligo Drama Circle’s “The Odd Couple” this weekend. Put simply, the chemistry that […]
If ever a play proved that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, or that the more things change the more they remain the same, it’s “Juno and the Paycock”, the classic drama by Seán O’ Casey. It is set in 1922, but more than three generations later, Irishmen are […]
Last week, the Hawk’s Well Theatre hosted an interesting and novel evening’s drama which also afforded three young directors the opportunities of presenting their productions of one act plays, very much off the beaten track. These plays, which contrasted sharply from each other in many respects, varied from an infrequently performed piece by Seán O’ […]
City of Derry drama festival continued at Magee University College last night with “Antigone” by the Sligo Drama Circle. In his adjudication, Mr. Ray Mc Anally commended the group for their choice of play. Though not always viable in the commercial theatre, he said it was a brave and exciting choice for presentation to a […]
It was standing room only at The Venue, Strandhill when “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett completed a three day run. An audience of more than 160, few of whom had seen a Beckett play before, expressed their enthusiasm with prolonged applause and glowing post-curtain comments. The laughed uproaringly at the slapstick humour which came as 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 […]