We continue our seasonal offerings marking the start of our 70th anniversary celebrations with a revival of our recordings of 12 different poems all with a Christmas theme. Following on from successful recordings of “A Christmas Carol” and “The Age Old Message”, we have decided to re-release our series of seasonal poems over the Christmas […]
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 […]
We have recently come across some video footage of an interview from 1966 with the then Chairman of Sligo Drama Circle, Eddie Fitzpatrick. The footage appears to take place in the Town Hall as the group are in rehearsal for a production of John Millington Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” in which Eddie […]
June 13th is earmarked each year as a day of celebration of the works of W.B.Yeats and Sligo, Ireland, the place most associated with the poet and playwright, is the centre of those celebrations. This year also marks the 100th Anniversary of his Nobel Prize for Literature. Again this year, Sligo Drama Circle is marking […]
June 13th is earmarked each year as a day of celebration of the works of W.B.Yeats and Sligo, Ireland, the place most associated with the poet and playwright, is the centre of those celebrations. This year again, Sligo Drama Circle is marking #YeatsDay by producing a number of videos showcasing some of the works of […]
June 13th is earmarked as a day of celebration of the works of W.B.Yeats and Sligo, Ireland, the place most associated with the poet and playwright, is the centre of those celebrations. This year, to mark #YeatsDay Sligo Drama Circle produced five videos to showcase some of the work of W.B. Yeats and also some […]
Footage has been unearthed of a rehearsal of our production of Robert Bolt’s “A Man For All Seasons”, an outdoor production from 1979 which took place in the Peace Park, or the Retreat House Gardens as it was known at the time. It ran from Sunday June 19th to Friday June 23rd, 1979. The cast […]
This video features a selection of newspaper adverts for various productions during our almost 60 year history. Note the various venues used for our productions, including plays and musicals. Note also the different admission fees charged, from old money, to decimalised pounds and pence. We hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane.
“Moll” by John B. Keane was performed in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November, 2013. This video slideshow features photographs of the set on the stage of the Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo.
“Moll” by John B. Keane was performed in the Hawk’s Well Theatre in November, 2013. This video slideshow, featuring photographs of the production, was used to promote the show.
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 […]