2018 Opening Night
Corofin Perform Opening Play for 2018
2018 Adjudicator - Ciaran McAuley
2018 Awards
The opening night for the 2026 Claremorris Drama Festival will feature Seamus O’Rourke in John B Keane’s “The Love Hungry Farmer”
Friday the 13th will now feature Gerry Farrell performing his new one man show “I had to go for Counselling”
The opening night for the 2026 Claremorris Drama Festival will feature Seamus O’Rourke in John B Keane’s “The Love Hungry Farmer”
Season Tickets for the 54th Claremorris Drama and Fringe festival now available from the Town Hall Theatre Claremorris: TownHall.ie or phone 094 931 0999
Congratulations to St. Patrick’s Drama Group who were the winners of the Premier Award this evening!
Well done also to Upstage Players who came second and Glenamaddy Players who came third.
The results were live-streamed from the McWilliam Park Hotel, Claremorris, on Sunday night.
Link is here: Live Results
Congrats to Dalkey Players who won this year’s Blue Riband Trophy for their performance of “The Crucible”
See our results page for more details
The awards ceremony can be viewed here:
The 52nd Festival opens with a new play by Oisin Flores Sweeney, directed by Geoff Gould and starring Seamus O’Rourke and Joan Sheehy.
On a winter’s night in Westport Tony (Seamus O’Rourke) and Sheila (Joan Sheehy) sit in their wingback chairs sipping wine as the television flickers. After 40 years of marriage they find themselves at a somewhat mundane crossroads in their lives. With their children grown and gone, and their granddaughter a little too often underfoot, they’re left in a hinterland of life, pondering what to do next. The glow from the television offers little comfort or entertainment but between them both Tony and Sheila have plenty to say, even if they don’t always say the things that really matter. Sheila dreams of travel and adventure, or even just a new lawnmower, but Tony’s penny pinching puts a damper on anything with a price tag. Instead, he wants to focus on his new diet; the one that will infamously “start on Monday”. The spark in their love life may have been extinguished over time, but their quick witted interactions are electrifying. And who’s to say that this isn’t the just the beginning of something better for them both.
