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. […]
Dinner theatre has proved to be a most popular way of combining two aspects of the good life – dining out and entertainment. Most large cities in the Western World and many smaller ones have found that there is great public response to the idea. Dinner Theatre comes to the Sligo Park Hotel on Wednesday, […]
Sligo Drama Circle have swept the boards from three out of four drama festivals with their production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” and with premier awards from Tubbercurry, Cavan and Ballyshannon, their nomination to the Athlone festival has been secured with more points than is necessary. It will be the first time in six […]
The Sligo Drama Circle, presenting “The Playboy of the Western World” (J.M. Synge), swept the boards at the Ulster Drama Festival in the Grand Opera House, Belfast, on Saturday night last when they were awarded the Grand Opera House Perpetual Challenge Cup, taking the trophy to the 26 counties for the first time ever, and […]
Summer theatre came to Sligo for the first time ever when, for three nights, in the Town Hall there was a Sligo group production of J. M. Synge’s classic “The Playboy of the Western World”. Even though the presentation was held in connection with the sixth annual Yeats International Summer School, the staging of a […]
Every play worthy of the name has a theme, whether it is the simple portrayal of historical events and the interaction of motives of those involved, or the giving of an example of events in possible life, real or imagined, which will serve a medium for a message: which message given badly in abstractions would […]
“I am glad I saw this play. I am sure it will go much further and that it will encourage professionals to do it. It is a great lead which the Sligo Drama Circle has given us”, commented adjudicator Mr. Vincent Dowling on “The Curious Savage”, presented on Wednesday night of last week at Bundoran […]
“This is a play I have been looking forward to since I came here”, said Mr. G. Golden, adjudicating Sligo Drama Circle’s presentation of John Patrick’s “The Curious Savage” on Wednesday night at Bundoran Drama Festival. “I heard a little whisper of the merits of this show”, said Mr. Golden, “and I was somewhat sceptical […]
Since curtain-up on Sligo Drama Circle’s presentation in Sligo Town Hall last week of John Patrick’s three act play, “The Curious Savage”, I have learned that some people who saw the production considered that “The Curious Savage” was a curious play. I can’t, perhaps, altogether blame them for that, because to many members of the […]
“This quite fascinating play was extremely well put over”, said Seamus Breathnach when he adjudicated on Sligo Drama Circle’s production of “The Curious Savage” by John Patrick at Roscommon Drama Festival on Sunday night. It was the closing night of the festival and the Festival Cup was won by the Sligo group. Mr. Breathnach said […]
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 […]