Awards Photos Now Online
Photos from the 63rd Ballyshannon Drama Festival Awards Ceremony are now in our online Gallery and on our Facebook page. Thanks as always to Brian Drummond for the photographs.
Photos from the 63rd Ballyshannon Drama Festival Awards Ceremony are now in our online Gallery and on our Facebook page. Thanks as always to Brian Drummond for the photographs.
Open Section First: ‘The 39 Steps’, Letterkenny Music and Drama Group Second: ‘The Dead School’, Corn Mill Theatre Third: ‘The Glass Menagerie’, Butt Drama Circle Best Producer: Pluincead O’Fearraigh, Letterkenny Music and Drama Group Best Actress: Elaine Gillespie as Annabella/Pamela/Margaret in ‘The 39 Steps’, Letterkenny Music and Drama Group Best Actor: Kieran Kelly as Richard Hannay in ‘The 39 Steps’, Letterkenny Music and Drama Group Confined Section First: ‘Play On’, Phoenix Players, Tubbercurry Second: ‘Stolen Child’, Glenamaddy Players Third: ‘Tea in a China Cup’, Newtownstewart Best Producer: Coman Keaveny, Glenamaddy Players Best Actor: Eamon Gallagher as Henry Benish in ‘Play On’, Phoenix Players Best Actress: Tina Ward as Peggy in ‘Stolen Child’, Glenamaddy Players Blue Riband (Open & Confined): ‘The 39 Steps’, Letterkenny…
Tonight is the final night of the 63rd Ballyshannon Drama Festival. The awards ceremony will follow tonight’s performance of ‘The Dead School’ by All Ireland Winners 2014 Corn Mill Theatre Group. Results will be posted online.
‘The God of Carnage’ took first place last night in the Strabane Drama Festival, but that’s not all! Premier Award for Best Play First Place in Open Section Best Director Ann Mc Hugh Best Actor Richard Hurst The Audience Award A nomination for Rachel O’Connor as Best Actress A nomination for John Travers for Best Staging.
John Carty John trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, The International School of Corporeal Mime, London, Saratoga International Theatre Institute, New York and The Roy Hart International Voice Centre, France. He has worked in professional theatre since 1988. He worked as an actor with Co-Motion Theatre Company, Dublin, and Graffiti Theatre-in-Education Company, Cork, before returning to Sligo to become a founder member of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company in 1991. He has acted in most of the company productions to date including Alan Strang in Equus, Christy Mahon in Playboy of the Western World, Lysander in A Mid-Summer Nights Dream, Gath in A Brief Taste Of Lightning, Mr. Martin in The Bald Soprano, McCruiskeen in The Third Policeman,…
The 63rd Ballyshannon Drama Festival opens tonight with ‘Same Old Moon’ by Gerakdine Aron, presented by St. Dympna’s, Dromore, in the Confined section. This very funny and moving play follows the life of aspiring writer Brenda Barnes, from childhood to her early forties. Through her eyes, we see her eccentric and fiery Irish family – her wilful and self-destructive Dad, her put-upon and sometimes hot-tempered Mum, and many other characters that have influenced her life. It is a charming, but not uncritical, look at family – a play littered with comedy and poignancy throughout, and promises to entertain. Some tickets are still available on the door. Curtain at 8.15pm.
Details of all the plays taking part in the 63rd Ballyshannon Drama Festival which opens on Saturday, March 14th, have been updated on the website, under the ‘Drama Festival’ and ‘Events’ links at the top of the page.
Ballyshannon Drama Society’s production of ‘The God of Carnage’ is on hiatus (as playwright Yasmina Reza would put it) for a few days before assaulting the circuit again on Friday night. The show has participated in four out of its eight festivals, and achieved fantastic results. On February 28th, ‘Carnage’ made its circuit premier in Newtownstewart with great success, winning First Place, the Best Actor award for Richard Hurst, Best Director for Ann Mc Hugh and Best Set. A week later, Saturday the 7th of March, we closed the Castleblayney festival and took home the trophy for Second Place, with Patricia Keane winning Best Actress. The next day, Sunday, we headed to the Western Drama Festival, Tubbercurry, and completed the run…