Newry Journal

Tonight is the big one, the performance we have all been waiting for, the appearance of the home side Newpoint, presenting Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa. It is the welcome return as director of Sean Treanor and as actors of the fabulous team of Patricia McCoy, Pauline Lynch, Denise Taylor, Paul McParland, Pat Mooney and Laurie Hodgett […]

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.

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. 

We had a lively and entertaining start to the Newry Drama Festival last evening. Your editor ended the evening in the pleasant company of Barry and Donna Crawford [in The Bridge] and reminisced of Mark Burns, Donna’s brother in faraway San Francisco. Greetings Mark!

  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.