Ballyshannon Drama Society

Wake In The West is back by popular demand.

The very successful show that sold-out for 3 nights will be staged again on

Saturday the 17th of April and Sunday the 18th of April

58th Ballyshannon Drama Festival 2010
AWARDS CEREMONY

Best Set: New Electric Ballroom – Butt Drama Circle designed by JC Bonar

Best Stage Manager: Philip Byrne and his team for Mauritius – Bradan Players

Lighting: Butt Drama Circle – New Electric Ballroom

Adjudicators Awards:

• The hilarious bathing scene as Patsy was ritually scrubbed in New Electric Ballroom
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  Patsy being ritually scrubbed in New Electric Ballroom

• A supporting performance of great skill and sensitivity – Miriam Pettit as Thea Elvsted in Hedda Gabler
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  Miriam Pettit as Thea Elvsted in Hedda Gabler

• The unforgettable appearance of the red coated ghost from behind the door in Shining City
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  red coated ghost from behind the door in Shining City

Outstanding achievement by a young person: Ronan Lagan – Bert in Pomeroy Players All My Sons

Best Actor Confined: Fintan Gallagher – Peter – The Gentle Island

Best Actress Confined: Margaret Kilcoyne – Millie in The Mai

Best Director Confined: Phoenix Players

Third place Confined: All My Sons – Pomeroy Players

Second Place Confined: The Gentle Island – Backburners Drama Circle

First Place Confined: The Mai – Phoenix Players

Best Actor Open: Patrick McBrearty – Private Gar in Philadelphia Here I Come  – Lifford Players

Best Actress Open: Aoife Boyce – Ada in The New Electric Ballroom – Butt Drama Circle

Best Producer Open: Monica Doherty and JC Bonar – New Electric Ballroom

Third Place Open: Shining City – Corn Mill Theatre Group.

Second Place Open: Philadelphia Here I Come – Lifford Players

Second Place Open: Philadelphia Here I Come – Lifford Players

Winner Open Section: New Electric Ballroom – Butt Drama Circle

Winner Open Section: New Electric Ballroom – Butt Drama Circle

Patsy Croal Blue Riband: New Electric Ballroom – Butt Drama Circle

Patsy Croal Blue Riband: New Electric Ballroom – Butt Drama Circle

Tonight’s play is “THE MAI” written by Marian Carr and performed by Phoenix Players (CONFINE) Show Starts at 7.30

SYNOPSIS OF PLAY
A moving story of four generations of women in one family in the midlands.
Centred on the figure of The Mai, a forty-year-old woman, struggling to save
her marriage and the happiness of herself and her children, the play explores
how history repeats itself – no matter how tragic the results.

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The Mai

The Mai

The Mai

The Mai

The Mai

The Mai

The Mai

The Mai

The Mai

Tonight’s play is “’MAURITIUS” written by Theresa Rebeck and performed by Bradan Players, Leixlip (Open) Show Starts at 8.15

SYMPOSIA OF THE PLAY
Two sisters. Two con men. Two stamps worth dying for.

Jackie and Mary are halfsisters whose mother’s death leaves them in possession of a rare stamp collection.

But which of the sisters actually owns the stamps? A seemingly simple sale becomes dangerous when less than reputable dealers enter the sisters world willing to do anything to claim the rare find as their own.

This recent broadway hit provides suspenseful entertainment at it’s best as characters cross and double-cross each other in a gripping and darkly comic tale.

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MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS

MAURITIUS

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Tonight’s play is “THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM” written by Ends Wash and performed by Butt Drama Circle.(Open) Show Start at 8.15

Synopsis of Play:

Funny, tender-hearted and at times pitch dark, “The New Electric Ballroom” is a coiled, dark, glitter-dusted fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life.

Three sisters in a remote fishing village have incarcerated themselves at home. They engage little with the outside world and they while away the years repeating the same story to themselves at the same time every day.

The two elder sisters tell their younger sister of a moment in their teens where love failed them at ” The New Electric Ballroom” a showband concert hall.

The occasion should have led either one of the other to a “wonderous place” far from small-town eyes but failing to be “properly kissed” and the consequent disappointment has embittered them.

The sisters find the outside world is harsh, the village claustrophobic and “inside is safe”. They are women damaged and “stamped by story” and “boxed by words” and this is the lesson hammered home to younger sister Ada. Even the regular intervention of Patsy, fishmonger and jittery natterer, will not draw them out.

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THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM

THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM

THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM

THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM