Post Tagged with: "Play"

Actors And Other Performers Wanted For New Play By Local Writer

Actors And Other Performers Wanted For New Play By Local Writer

March 6, 2024 at 10:46 am Comments are Disabled

A READING of ‘In The Shadow of the Cathedral — A Tribute To Elizabeth Luling Dooley’, a new play by Mike O’Halloran, will take place in Cúl Street (Curbys Bar) Ardfert on Wednesday, March 13 at 7.30pm. Everybody is welcome to attend this reading, especially actors who may wish to […]

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Some of the members of the cast of ‘Ballymacandy’ during rehearsals this week: front l-r: Siobhán Collins (Annie Cronin), Claire O’Connor (Maggie Slattery), back l-r: Chris Horan (Commissioner Smyth), Jeremiah Murphy (Constable John Quirke), Muireann McAuliffe (Meriel Leeson Marshall), Michael Quirke (Jack Flynn), John Sexton (Denis Sugrue), Joe Horan (Totty O’Sullivan).

Story Of Ballymacandy Ambush Brought To The Stage

October 3, 2022 at 1:27 pm Comments are Disabled

THE dramatic story of the IRA ambush of members of the Crown Forces near Milltown in 1921 is being presented as a new play in the local Community Hall this November. ‘Ballymacandy’ is based on the best-selling book by local historian and author Owen O’Shea and involves a cast of […]

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Mike Lynch, Jimmy Adams and Sorcha Uí Shuilleabháin rehearsing for 'One Ordination And A Donation'. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: More Hilarious Comedy-Drama Fun On Way At Na Gaeil Clubhouse

January 29, 2019 at 3:21 pm Comments are Disabled

AFTER two hit comedy dramas in the past couple of years, the trilogy will be complete later this month when ‘One Ordination and a Donation’ will be performed at Na Gaeil GAA clubhouse. The play will be stage on Wednesday, February 27, Thursday, February 28 and Saturday, March 2, and […]

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Dakotah Carter O'Flynn (Maggie), Darragh Doyle O'Brien (Maurice), Grace Starrett (Mary) and Ephrata Yosef (Mrs Madden)  in rehearsals for 'Big Maggie' on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Powerful Performances As Mercy Mounthawk Stages ‘Big Maggie’

January 25, 2019 at 12:57 pm Comments are Disabled

THE latest production from Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School students opened last night in Siamsa Tire and audiences were very impressed by ‘Big Maggie’. Directed by Tony Behan, the students did John B. Keane’s classic justice with powerful performances from the cast and wonderful detail in the stage sets. The students […]

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Judith Waugh, Padraig Harrington and Darach Gallagher rehearsing for 'Big Maggie' at Mercy Mounthawk. Photo by Dermot Crean

Mercy Mounthawk Students To Hit The Siamsa Stage For ‘Big Maggie’

January 22, 2019 at 10:50 am Comments are Disabled

STUDENTS from Mercy Mounthawk are about to take the stage this week for their latest production which promises to be another top-class offering from the school. ‘Big Maggie by John B Keane is directed by Tony Behan and it will be the 17th time the school has staged a play. […]

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Dakotah Carter O'Flynn and Keela Hughes rehearsing for 'Big Maggie' at Mercy Mounthawk. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Mercy Mounthawk Students Prepare For ‘Big Maggie’

December 28, 2018 at 10:10 am Comments are Disabled

REHEARSALS are in full swing for the next stage production from students at Mercy Mounthawk and it promises to be another top-class offering from the school. ‘Big Maggie by John B Keane is directed by Tony Behana nd it will be the 17th time the school has staged a play. […]

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‘The Maiden Aunt’ To Entertain Audiences In Lixnaw

‘The Maiden Aunt’ To Entertain Audiences In Lixnaw

February 15, 2017 at 10:10 am Comments are Disabled

ST Michael’s Drama Group Lixnaw will present the hilarious comedy “The Maiden Aunt”, written by Irish playwright Jimmy Keary, at An Ceolann, Lixnaw running for four nights from Thursday, February 16 to Sunday, February 19. With a cast of eight, the play, directed by Mike O’Halloran, revolves around Gertie O’Grady, […]

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Castlegregory Man To Tour His Acclaimed ‘After Sarah Miles’ Play Around The County

Castlegregory Man To Tour His Acclaimed ‘After Sarah Miles’ Play Around The County

April 19, 2016 at 10:47 am Comments are Disabled

KERRY playwright and actor Michael Hilliard Mulcahy is taking his one man play ‘After Sarah Miles’ on the road later this month. The  Castlegregory man hopes to perform the play in communities and villages all over Kerry and beyond throughout the Spring and Summer of 2016. ‘After Sarah Miles’ chronicles 35 […]

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Mercy Mounthawk students who will perform the play 'The Plough and the Stars' are, from left: Andrew Breewood, Killian O'Regan, Clodagh Harrington and Ciaran Ryan. Photo by Gavin O'Connor.

PHOTOS: Mounthawk Students To Tackle O’Casey Classic At Siamsa

January 7, 2015 at 2:30 pm Comments are Disabled

  WITH the centenary of the 1916 rising around the corner, a cast of 16 Mercy Mounthawk students are set to perform the defining play from that period, ‘The Plough and the Stars’. The Sean O’Casey classic depicts the harsh realities of life in the Dublin tenements before and during the […]

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