A big success

EXCELLENT THEATRE WAS IN ABUNDANCE IN TUBBERCURRY FOR THE ACCLAIMED WESTERN DRAMA FESTIVAL ONE ACT SHOWCASE AT THE WEEKEND. IT RAN FROM THURSDAY UNTIL SATURDAY AND THE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE SAID IT WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS. VISITORS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY CAME TO SOUTH SLIGO TO SAMPLE THE BRILLIANT THEATRE AND THERE WAS A VIBRANT PROGRAMME OF EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL. EILEEN DAVEY, PRO, THANKED EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED THE EVENT. SHE SAID THE FESTIVAL WAS A HUGE HIT AND RECEIVED FANTASTIC SUPPORT FROM THE PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES IN SOUTH SLIGO AND ENVIRONS FOR DRAMA EVENTS. CIARAN MCCAULEY, ACCLAIMED SLIGO ACTOR WAS ADJUDICATOR FOR THIS YEAR’S ONE ACT DRAMA FESTIVAL AND CIARAN SAID IT WAS AN HONOUR AND A PLEASURE TO BE INVOLVED.

RESULTS OF THE 2017 ONE-ACT DRAMA FESTIVAL HOSTED BY THE WESTERN DRAMA FESTIVAL IN ST. BRIGID’S HALL THEATRE, TUBBERCURRY, CO. SLIGO FROM 16TH TO 18TH NOVEMBER 2017 WITH ADJUDICATOR MR CIARAN MCCAULEY. OPEN SECTION

1ST BALLYSHANNON DRAMA SOCIETY “FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE” 2ND BACKSTAGE THEATRE GROUP, LONGFORD “LOVE IN A GLASS JAR” 3RD ENNIS PLAYERS “SEMBLANCE OF MADNESS”

CONFINED SECTION 1ST CLANN MACHUA, KILTIMAGH “HUNGER MARCH”

2ND GLENAMADDY PLAYERS “THE DONAHUE SISTERS” 3RD D.A.D.S. DUNMORE “WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF I SAGN OUT OF TUNE”

BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE FESTIVAL (OPEN) CHRISTINE O’BRIEN. BACKSTAGE THEATRE GROUP, LONGFORD. “LOVE IN A GLASS JAR”

BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE FESTIVAL (CONFINED) TOM HOLINHAN. ROSCOMMON DRAMA GROUP “TOUCHING TOMORROW”

ADJUDICATORS SPECIAL AWARD : ANN MCHUGH.