It was with a heavy conscience that I visited Kevin Flynn’s “Venue” on Tuesday night where Sligo Drama Circle members staged Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”. This summer the Circle have given Sligo audiences two other works, “The Tailor and Ansty” and “Letters of a Matchmaker”, both of which deserved reviews in this column. Such enterprise is […]
Regardless of the tuppence increase, the Sligo pints are still being bought in the thousands each night. There’s TV congregations glued to “My Son, My Son” and Superman and James Bond have processions coming to see them. Yet the Drama Circle who’ve provided the now “prosperous” Sligo with a little bit of culture through good […]
A willingness to make allowances is definitely one of the best ways to guard against disappointment. One should always be prepared to look on anything produced voluntarily by local individuals and groups with a kind, sympathetic and understanding eye. Stage productions at a local level are a case in point. Those involved are one’s neighbours […]
In a curious way John B. Keane has created plays which, though written so recently, have already something of the quality of collector’s items. Keane, who owns a public house in Listowel – that breeding ground of literary people – has chosen in his plays to put characters on the stage who are shadows and […]
Sligo Drama Circle opened its 1978 summer season with a vote of confidence in the Irish climate as well as in Sligo theatre-goers with an open air presentation of “A Man For All Seasons” by Robert Bolt, in the Retreat House Gardens on Sunday evening last. Despite the cold of the opening night, this was […]
I looked forward very much to seeing the two Yeats plays as they are an important feature of the Summer School. “Deirdre” and “The Cat and the Moon” were two contrasting plays in a double bill. “Deirdre” is an immensely difficult play to stage and to act. Part stylised, part realistic, part ritual and part […]
“The three angels tonight were a Godsend”, said adjudicator Dan Treston at the Ballyshannon Drama Festival last night when “My Three Angels” was presented by the Sligo Drama Circle. Joseph, played by Paddy Dooney, was extra good, and he could find nothing to criticise in his performance. Robert Burnside as Jules was especially good in […]
It was a pleasure to hear an audience laughing and enjoying themselves the way they did at the opening performance of John B. Keane’s “Many Young Men of Twenty” which is the first play of Sligo Drama Circle’s Spring season. Producer Manus Shiels has succeeded in giving us a play of music, fun and just […]
Sligo Drama Circle swept the honours at the Tubbercurry Drama Festival with their production of Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. The Sligo production won the premier award – the Canon Gildea Trophy – in the open competition for full-length plays. The Jim Wynne Cup for the best producer was awarded to […]
It is paradoxical that in Ireland where religion plays such a major part in our lives, one of the few, if not the only great religious novel, should deal with the rejection of faith. James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is a description of a religious experience and as such […]
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 […]