Newpoint’s latest offering kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday) night week (30th Sept) in the Town Hall at 8.00pm. Charlie Smyth presents the John B Keane favourite ‘The Field’.
Drama
Lucia Welsh’s 60th Birthday
Just about everyone in the town knows Lucia Welsh so it was a great privelege and honour to be among those invited to share her birthday celebration – first at a Mass celebrated in St Clare’s Chapel by her brother Fr Oscar Welsh, and then at the home of her aunt Tara McIntyre.
Equus
Of my lifetime of attending Newry Drama Festival, two plays in particular stand out, Agnes of God and Equus. Tonight is the first return of the latter and it is performed by one of the best societies in Ireland, Silken Thomas of Kildare!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Tonight’s play at the Newry Drama Festival is the evergreen One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‘ – this year performed by Omagh, was a highly successful film and Broadway Play and was formerly presented in Newry under the great Sean Hollywood.
The Memory of Water: opening night
This year’s Newry Drama Festival opens on Friday evening with a performance of Sheila Stephenson’s The Memory of Water.
Newry Drama Festival: Newpoint
This year for the Newry Drama Festival, instead of offering critiques on the performances, I am inviting others to do so, while I merely reflect in advance on the storyline of each play.
The home team Newpoint …
Carthaginians
The Lislea Drama Festival will close on Saturday evening with Frank MacGuinness’s Carthaginians.
Lislea: A Quiet Moment
My friend and colleague Michael McNamee was kind enough to supply the following review of Sunday night’s performance by Ardagh Drama Group of Limerick.
Lislea Drama : A Skull in Connemara
This Martin McDonagh play – a comedy with sinister undertones – was well performed by Kilrush, Wexford who scored highly last year with another McDonagh, The Cripple of Innisman.