Tonight the patrons of Newry Drama Festival are in for a real treat with what is undoubtedly one of my favourite plays, “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder. The Lifford Players of Donegal are old friends and have been competing for as long as anybody can remember. They are worthy representatives of everyone’s favourite county.
John McCullagh
Bernadette of Lourdes
What makes Newry Drama Festival unique is the high proportion of competing teams from across the border. This greatly enriches our experience as an audience and guarantees fierce competition for qualifying points.
The Dilemma: John Hewitt
As term-time ends at the Stormont British Administration Centre and recess is called for the sectarian head-count known as local elections, Martin McGuinness, ex-IRA leader and now Deputy First Minister…
2011 Newry Drama Festival opens
The nine plays which make up this year’s Newry Amateur Drama Festival will be outlined in turn. We kick off Friday evening (8.00 pm at the Town Hall) with Rosemary Drama Group of Belfast, one of my own favourite groups.
Windsor Hill c. 1957: Slice D
This is the penultimate slice of the great Windsor Hill pupils photo of 1957.
Sleep deprivation
We turned into Moore Lane on the left side of Moore Street and we went to the rear of the houses and tried each door but they were closed from within as the occupants had been ordered out.
A Lislea Season: To the All-Ireland
Thursday saw some beautiful things happen. We went to see the new storage facilities which during the daytime would prove awkward to offload into and out of. As I was having a conversation with Gerard Duffy outside The Bank, luck would have it that Mr David Downey had a chat with us.
Auditions Begin: Lislea Season
It was amateur drama but it was on a competitive level as well: and not just a home performance but travelling to various venues with the hope of returning this group to the All-Ireland finals.