Unfortunately Glenamaddy Players are unable to compete in The Claremorris Drama and Fringe Festival on Sunday Night March 27th due to illness in the group.
The final night now in Claremorris is March 26th.
Unfortunately Glenamaddy Players are unable to compete in The Claremorris Drama and Fringe Festival on Sunday Night March 27th due to illness in the group.
The final night now in Claremorris is March 26th.
Doors open 7pm
Reception at 7:30pm
The Gala Opening night of the festival will be a celebration of the 50th festival with a special performance of Seamus O’Rourke’s play “Victor’s Dung” – not part of the competition.
Seamus O’Rourke is an award-winning writer, director and actor from County Leitrim. He tours Ireland regularly with his own self-penned shows. Seamus has over two million hits on YouTube and Social Media with his collection of short stories, recitations and sketches.
Play Synopsis
Victor’s Dung is set in a farmyard, complete with its very own dung heap, outdoor toilet and rather poor broadband reception. It is the comic tale of Victor Maguire, a crude, vulgar, abrupt, un-PC Cavan farmer who gets a surprise one Friday morning. We are then taken on a whirlwind journey through Victor’s somewhat sad and unconventional life, meeting up with many a strange bucko along the way… Hold on to your hats… and your sweets (because there may be Cavan people in the audience)… this could get messy…
Cast: Seamus O’Rourke, Charlie McGuinness & Tommy Sharkey.
Season Tickets for the 50th Claremorris Drama and Fringe festival now available from the Town Hall box office: TownHall.ie or phone 094 931 0999
Claremorris Drama and Fringe festival are delighted to announce that Christian O’Reilly will perform the Official opening on March 12th.
Originally from Listowel, Christian O’Reilly is a Galway-based writer. His plays include It Just Came Out (Druid Debut Series 2001), The Good Father (Druid – Galway Arts Festival 2002; national tour 2003; joint writer of the 2002 Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary), Is This About Sex? (Rough Magic – 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival; 50th Dublin Theatre Festival; Winner of Best Theatre Script at the 2008 Irish Writers’ Guild Awards), Here We Are Again Still (Decadent/ Galway City Council – 2009 Nun’s Island; bealtine Festival and national tour in 2011), and Sanctuary (Blue Teapot – 2012 Galway Theatre Festival; 2013 Galway Arts Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival).
His screen credits include episodes of BBC One dramas Doctors, Casualty and Holby City as well as Inside I’m Dancing (2004), a feature film based on his original story, which was released in the US as Rory O’Shea Was Here.Two of his plays are being performed at the 50th anniversary Festival, “The Good Father” and “Chapatti”.
Season Tickets for the 50th Claremorris Drama and Fringe festival now available from the Town Hall box office: TownHall.ie or phone 094 931 0999
For more details see our Schedule page.
The final line-up for the 2019 Claremorris Fringe Festival of Drama has been announced!
For full details on this year’s competition, please see the new Fringe Festival website
John Corless is a surrealist comedy writer from Claremorris, Co. Mayo. He co-wrote (with Liam Horan) and performed in “The Pull” which toured Ireland for four years from 2012. He wrote “A Great Consolation” for the centenary of the 1916 rising, and has written numerous short plays for the stage and radio.
Group: HalfSolid ProductionsMichael Goulding was born Manchester and moved to Mayo in 2000. He has been involved in numerous musical productions over the years with both Claremorris and Castlebar Musical Societys. As well as acting Michael has turned his hand to writing and has written numerous plays for radio and stage. He works for Western Care Association and also presents a programme on Midwest Radio on Monday's at 10pm.
Group: Grand ProductionsAmist the chaos of the modern world, Nicola Kean finds playwriting to be a form of therapy and a means to dissect the myriad of colourful characters that she encounter in her day-to-day life. In 2016, she won the Claremorris Fringe Festival and earlier this year, she was short-listed for the Eamon Keane full-length play award. She is currently working on her third full-length script.
Group: Fringe BenefitsFiona Kelly is an award-winning radio producer and broadcaster, best known as a presenter of "It says in the papers" on RTE 's "Morning Ireland". Since 2017, she has also been writing storylines for "Fair City". She lives in Dublin with her husband, two children and a dog called Magic.
Group: The Clockwork Theatre CompanyJohn Paul Murphy is an actor and playwright from Co Galway. As an actor, John Paul has appeared in Jack Taylor, Fair City and Wrecking the Rising (TG4). With all his plays, John Paul laces his writing with lots of humour. His most recent play 'Turn around bright eyes' won the award for best new writing at the Galway Fringe 2018.
Group: Clurichaun TheatreGalway native Sarah Fahy writes poetry, prose and scripts. She is also an actress and director with local groups in Loughrea. As a playwright she has had two plays stage performed. Her play ‘Significant Loss’ was recently adapted into a short film and won The Offline Film Festival in Birr, Co Offaly. Sarah's passion truly is the arts.
Group: The Drama HeadsPaul Maher is a Tipperary native and his plays have been short-listed for the PJ O’Connor Awards, Listowel Writer’s Week, Kenneth Branagh Award & London Festival of Pub Theatre. His work has been performed at local Arts Festivals in Cashel & Clonmel.
Group: Wilde River Drama GroupPeter Gould is a writer and theatre director based in London. After a career in journalism, mainly with the BBC, he now works as a volunteer with The Questors Theatre in Ealing, where he helps to develop new work for the stage. Peter was a qualifier in last year’s Fringe and we are delighted to welcome him back again to Claremorris this year.
Group: Charlestown Drama GroupJoe Bergin lives in Leixlip, Co. Kildare and has been involved in amateur theatre for over forty years as both actor and director. His play “Merry-go-round” was placed second in the Claremorris Fringe in 2017 and he went on to win first place in 2018 with another piece “Interplay”. He has just completed a course in “Directing for the Theatre” at Maynooth University.
Group: Tumble Down ProductionsMoira Mahony is an actor and director from Athenry, Co. Galway. She has worked with numerous groups including Seumas O'Kelly Players, Athenry Drama Group, BlenDiva Productions, Unspoken Word and the Dramaheads. Moira has been involved in Claremorris Fringe for the past 5 years, acting and directing. This her first attempt at play writing.
Group: BlenDiva ProductionsThe list of qualifiers for the Fringe Festival 2019 are below:
‘Old Broad’ by John Paul Murphy, Galway
‘Some Other Doorway’ by Fiona Kelly, Dublin
‘Undocumented’ by Sarah Fahy, Loughrea
‘I Am Marriage Counsellor of Poland’ by Paul Maher, Tipperary
‘He, She and It’ by Moira Mahony, Athenry
‘Mammy and Me (And Fifi Makes Three)’ by Nicola Kean, Claremorris
‘Down and Out’ by Peter Gould, London
‘Andrew’s Hollow’ by John Corless, Claremorris
‘Trapped’ by Joe Bergin, Kildare
‘The White Feather’ by Michael Goulding, Ballyhaunis