Our revival of our 2013 hit comedy “MOLL” by John B. Keane returns to the Hawk’s Well Theatre from July 7th to 11th. Such was the reaction to this staple of the Irish canon that we have been really anxious to re-create the parish presbytery on stage again. MOLL is a clasic Irish comedy and […]
Sligo Drama Circle is delighted to announce the return of their huge hit comedy from 2013, MOLL. This John B. Keane classic comedy received hugely positive feedback from audiences when it last played the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November 2013. MOLL is set to return to the Hawk’s Well this July and it should appeal […]
Dear Sir, I suppose that it is not really surprising that Sligo should have a thriving Amateur Dramatic Society. Back in the thirties when most Irish towns thought of “doing a play” as a means of raising funds for a new school or the renovation of a church, the Sligo Unknown Players were setting standards […]
The Sligo Drama Circle production of ‘The Plough and the Stars’ returns to the Hawks Well Theatre for eight nights only from Monday 3rd to Monday 10th August, inclusively. This great O’ Casey classic, colourful and one-time controversial, had a spectacularly successful spring run, so any patrons unable to gain a seat then, have a […]
The Sligo Drama Circle returns to the Hawk’s Well Theatre with eight consecutive performances of the Seán O’ Casey classic “The Shadow of a Gunman”. (August 5th to August 12th inclusive) This entertaining and satirical play is the first of the famous “Dublin Trilogy”, the others “Juno” and “The Plough” also had successful productions in […]
‘Summertime and the living is easy’ – isn’t exactly what you’ll hear S.D.C. Director, Walter Mc Donagh, chirping during this holiday season. Living indeed is easy if you’re lazing languidly on the sun drenched decks of the ‘St. Louis Princess’ as you glide down by the ‘Gateway Arch’, swept on by mighty Mississippi, a mega-sized […]
Over the next few weeks, Sligo Drama Circle changes its venue, it productions and its normal Tuesday/Thursday routine with the advent of the Yeats International Summer School. On Saturday 19th and Monday 21st of August, the Circle will be in Summerhill College theatre with three plays by William Butler Yeats, “The Cat and the Moon”, […]
Sligo Drama Circle returns to the Town Hall for its Summer Theatre on Tuesday July 11th with a revival of J. B. Keane’s famous tragic-comedy “Sive”. This All-Ireland winning drama in Athlone in 1959 should prove a popular choice with visitors and locals alike and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout July and into […]
Sligo Drama Circle’s Summer theatre season opens on a highly unusual note this year – for the first time in over twenty years audiences are to be treated to outdoor theatre. The venue for this event will be the Retreat House Gardens alongside the Cathedral car park. These grounds have been recently restored and at […]
Sligo people have been without the most important timepiece in town – the clock on the Cathedral – in recent days because of a play. The Cathedral clock, which rings out fifteen minute time chimes, has been silenced because of the play “A Man For All Seasons”, on the life of Thomas Moore is being […]
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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Sligo Men’s Shed Work With SDC
Thirteen years ago a group of Sligomen met to discuss starting a Men’s Shed in the town. Those first meetings were held in the Family Life Centre on the Mall, but it soon became clear that if the idea was to develop, a permanent premises would be needed. Enter Fr. Tom Hever, who told the […]
We are in the process of writing a book on the history of Sligo Drama Circle over the past almost 70 years. We have been gathering information, photographs and lots more to be included in the book. We also wanted to give our audiences an opportunity to have an input into the book by sharing […]
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Sligo Drama Circle took place on Monday May 27th in the Drama Centre, Market Yard Sligo. Many thanks to all who took the trouble to attend the meeting and support the Drama Circle in its work. Both the outgoing Chairperson Máire Hynes and Secretary Fintan Whelan outlined the activities […]
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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Sligo Men’s Shed Work With SDC
Thirteen years ago a group of Sligomen met to discuss starting a Men’s Shed in the town. Those first meetings were held in the Family Life Centre on the Mall, but it soon became clear that if the idea was to develop, a permanent premises would be needed. Enter Fr. Tom Hever, who told the […]
We are in the process of writing a book on the history of Sligo Drama Circle over the past almost 70 years. We have been gathering information, photographs and lots more to be included in the book. We also wanted to give our audiences an opportunity to have an input into the book by sharing […]
Yeats Day is celebrated annually in Sligo and around the world on the date of his birthday, June 13th. The day is an opportunity to focus on and celebrate the poetry of this Nobel prize-winning poet. Sligo is central to the celebrations of this day as it was the landscape of the area which so […]