Theatre maker Kellie Hughes, will be developing a new theatre show, TYPE, at the Hawk’s Well Theatre this August, in collaboration with Italian movement specialists Oscar Valsecchi and Valentina Temussi, German composer/musician David Stalling and Irish visual artist/scenographer Michael Cummins. You can become part of the theatrical experience presenting a first sharing of this new […]
Sligo Drama Circle celebrates its 60th birthday this year, and as part of our celebrations we are holding a “Celebration Social” night on Friday September 9th in the Glasshouse Hotel. This will be an informal night for friends of the Drama Circle to get together to chat, reminisce and celebrate the wonderful drama produced on […]
Sligo Drama Circle joins “Culture Night” for the first time with our exhibition entitled “60 Years of Drama“. The event celebrates 60 years of our Drama in Sligo with an exhibition of posters, programmes, photographs, costumes and memorabilia from our 60 year history. Join us in our Market Yard premises (beside Montmartre restaurant) on Culture Night, September […]
Our “Wasn’t It A Full Life” production takes place from Tuesday to Friday this week at 8pm. It takes place in the unique venue of Sligo Courthouse in Teeling Street right in the centre of Sligo. Taking place in the Circuit Court, its excellent acoustics and ambience makes it a perfect venue for our 1916-themed show. The courtroom features a […]
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms. Sligo Drama Circle has had a presence on Instagram since November 2013 and has a […]
Local actor Bob Kelly is currently engaged as Theatre Artist in Residence at the Hawk’s Well Theatre for this year. Bob is at present writing a new piece of theatre The Big Wall to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. This ambitious, new performance project will take place at Sligo Courthouse and Sligo Gaol […]
As we celebrate the 60th Anniversary of our founding, we are making a special appeal to members of the public in Sligo and afar to help us to source and develop our archival material. While we have endeavoured, especially over the past ten years, to gather together evidence of our past activities, we still feel […]
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death last night of one of our founder members, Walter Mc Donagh. Walter will be fondly remembered by all those in the dramatic community for his wonderful contribution to the development of drama and theatre in Sligo. Sligo audiences will especially remember his great characterisations […]
Many years ago, Sligo Drama Circle presented a cup to Feis Shligigh, the Hughes Cup, in memory of Charlie and Maggie Hughes. By all accounts, Charlie and Maggie were stalwarts of Sligo Unknown Players, the pre-cursor to the Drama Circle. A 1962 article in The Sligo Champion referred to the couple: “Charlie and Margaret Hughes […]
Over the past number of years we have begun to accumulate a lot of archival material relating to our almost 60 years of treading the boards of Sligo stages. Much of this material, especially photographs, is accessible on this website. However, we wanted to make more of the material available to the public. We have […]
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 […]