Newry News and Irish Fun
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.
This year’s Newry Drama Festival opens on Friday evening with a performance of Sheila Stephenson’s The Memory of Water.
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 …
The Lislea Drama Festival will close on Saturday evening with Frank MacGuinness’s Carthaginians.
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.
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.
With the first signs of Spring come the amateur drama festivals and below is reproduced that for the beautiful village of Lislea in South Armagh.
We three walked the towpath today from Lurganare to Jerretspass. The images are below. Meanwhile, in reference to this entry, Martin Payne emails me with the following message:
“I was talking to a guy on the towpath earlier on this year, his name is McKeown, and his Father was the boxing coach for the old Bosco club years ago.
The gabbro boulder-strewn western side of Anglesey Mountain was our challenge this St Steven’s Day. It was also the birthday of BOTH of my companions, the newest Mr and Mrs McCullagh.