ICA’S DRAMA FESTIVAL PACKS GLENEALY HALL FOR 3 NIGHTS
THE 64 th Wicklow ICA Drama Festival returned to Glenealy Village Hall for three sold-out nights.
Eleven groups performed six one act plays and eight sketches, leaving adjudicator Anna Walker with the difficult task of selecting the winners.
The Premier Award for Best Group was won by St Patrick’s Dramatic Society from Dalkey with their One Act Play ‘In Room Five Hundred And Four’ by Jimmie Chinn. Their director Judith Elmes won Best Director and cast member Hannah Blair White won the Adjudicator’s Actress Award. The Molly Moore Shield for Runner Up Group was won by Bray Arts with ‘Late Entry’ by David Tristram. The Terri Connolly Cup for Best Sketch/Short Play was won by Dalkey Players with ‘Khora: A Space Between Time’ written and directed by Emmet J Driver who won the Adjudicator’s Award in the short play section.
Dalkey Players also won The Gloria Mullally Trophy for Best Moment in Theatre and The Norah Ferns Trophy for Most Appropriate Costume. Best Sketch/Short Play by an ICA Group was won by Clooney Quin ICA. The May Condon Cup for an ICA Group or Individual in the Sketch/Short Play section was won by Celine Moore Ballycoog ICA for her part in ‘Ear to the Ground’ by Thomas Clare. Delgany Dramatic Society won Best Set with their One Act Play ‘The Patient’ and their director Pat Dunne won the Adjudicator’s Award in the One Act Section.
In the One Act Section Best Actor was won by Michael Fogarty St Patrick’s D.S. Best Actress went to Fiona Keane and Runner Up Actor went to Martin Davidson Bray Arts. Runner Up Actress was won by Maureen O’Sullivan in ‘The Flattering Word’.
Merit Awards went to Peter Harrison Delgany Dramatic Society for the lighting in ‘The Patient’; Beth Holmes Delgany ICA; Doris Cullen Balally Players and Brigid Cahill Ashford ICA.