Festivals, Recreation — Saturday, December 1, 2012 16:08

Newry Film Club: Arts Centre: Wed 5: Fairy

Results: 2012 Newry Drama Festival

Sunday, April 1, 2012 14:03

The opinion of the Adjudicator seldom tallies with my own – and so it is again. I will report however, without comment, the final results from the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Newry Drama Festival. Premier Award : Rosemary Drama Group, Belfast : When we are married Runners-up: Ballyduff, Waterford: The Crucible Third: Silken Thomas: Jerusalem Fourth: Newpoint: Beauty Queen of Leenane […]

2012 Drama Festival closes …

Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:38

To write a New Age English allegorical drama so radical as Jerusalem – as Jez Butterworth has done – with a degenerate drug dealer as hero and with all its attendant violence and foul language, and almost instantly enjoy huge success with it in New York and London, and have it acclaimed as a modern classic, is quite an achievement. […]

Eithne Bell for Best Actress?

Friday, March 30, 2012 8:24

There was high praise indeed, and rightly so, last evening from our adjudicator Walter Ewart for Newpoint’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane. I believe he was greatly impressed with every aspect of this interpretation, from the stage crew to the set, to the lighting, sound script, props, costume, the directing and most especially the acting performance. Eithne Bell came in […]

Newpoint: Beauty Queen of Leenane

Thursday, March 29, 2012 15:13

I know you really will want to go to the Town Hall tonight at 8.00 pm to support our local Newpoint Players who are performing Martin McDonagh’s Beauty Queen of Leenane. Eithne Bell and Patricia McCoy have already shared the “Best Actress” award for their roles and Sean Treanor has won a Best Producer award. They all (Donal O’Hanlon […]

Witches and Ghouls: Newry Drama Festival

Saturday, March 24, 2012 19:21

Tonight, Saturday it’s the turn of Waterford’s Ballyduff with the classic ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Millar. The classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch hunt and the McCartheyism of ’50s America. The play is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusation – anywhere and any […]

2012 Newry Drama Festival Opens

Friday, March 23, 2012 13:43

The Diamond Jubilee Newry Drama Festival kicks off tonight at 8 pm in Newry Town Hall with a witty farce, Stella by Starlight, performed by Bart Players from Belfast. Bart are perennial favourites in Newry. All the action takes place in a single night in the home of contemporary Irish couple, Dermot, a down-sized corporation employee and his wife Stella, […]

McDonagh’s The Lonesome West

Saturday, February 25, 2012 13:33

Tonight at 8.00 pm sees the first play of the 2012 Lislea Drama Festival. Kilrush of Wexford present this modern classic.

2012 Lislea Drama Festival

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:13

The 31st Lislea Drama Festival begins on the last Saturday of the month. The organisers have the good sense to stage at most three plays per week, giving both teams and patrons a break.