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Claremorris 40th Drama Festival 2010 - Festival Over For This Year
40th Drama Festival |
The
40th
Claremorris Drama Festival started on Friday 12th of March 2010 in the Town Hall
in
Claremorris, Co. Mayo. The festival ran for ten nights (every night except Thursday March 18th) with the final night on Monday March 22nd. There were big celebrations for the 40th Birthday of the festival.
The adjudicator for the 2010 festival was Anna Walker ADA. Click here for more details on Anna.
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Ennis Players Win the Blue Riband Award
Ennis Players
Photo: © Michael Donnelly |
The Ennis Players won the 2010 Blue Riband Award (The Ray Leonard Memorial Trophy) and the Best Play Award in the Open competition.
Compantis Lir claimed the Best Play Award in the Confined competition.
The full results for 2010 are now available here. |
Festival Line-Up
This year there were ten plays in total - five plays in the Open competition and five in the Confined competition.
Please see the schedule page for the full line-up of plays and when they were performed.
Primary School Art Competition - Entries Now Closed
Once again we ran our Annual Art Competition for Primary School
students in conjunction with the 2010 Claremorris Drama Festival. See Art Competition page for details of this year's winners.
Sean Smyth to Open 40th Drama Festival
Sean Smyth |
The Claremorris Drama Festival are delighted to have Mr.Sean Smyth perform the official opening of our 40th Festival. Sean grew up on Convent Road where he played football with Ray Leonard RIP and the Festival Chairman. His first involvement with Drama Festivals was with Relays from Ballinasloe. On his return to Claremorris he was responsible for forming "Claremorris Players". Some people might remember their first production which was staged in "Issacs Hall" beside Griffiths Garage. Sean has been involved in amateur drama in the sixties and early seventies, and was a member of the 1973 All-Ireland winning production of "The Black Stranger" with Claremorris Players.
After "resting" for 30 years, he returned to the stage with KATS, Galway, in 2003 and played the Woodcutter in the All-Ireland winning production of "Rashomon". He has won many acting awards on the Amateur Drama Festival circuit over the years.
He counts himself fortunate to have had the privilege of working under two of the great directors of the Irish Amateur Drama movement, the late Fr. P. V. O'Brien and the late Mr. Paddy Henry. One of Fr.O' Brien's productions that Sean and his wife Mary probably will never forget is Thornton Wilders "Our Town" where he and Mary had the leading roles.
Welcome back to The Claremorris Drama Festival Sean and Mary.
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Ticket Prices
| Adults |
€12 |
| OAPs
&
Students |
€8 |
| Children |
€5 |
| Season
Ticket
(Limited Number Available) |
€70 |
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Bookings
For Festival bookings please contact:
McEllin Travel
D'Alton Street, Claremorris
Phone (094) 9371197
10.00am - 6.00pm Monday - Saturday
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Claremorris Drama Festival 2009
Opening
Night 2009
Photo: © Michael Donnelly |
The
39th
Claremorris Drama Festival began on Friday 13th of March 2009 with an
official opening at 8:20pm in the Town Hall
in
Claremorris, Co. Mayo. For
nine nights (every night except Thursday March 19th) audiences enjoyed a host of wonderful performances.
The
festival took place at 8:30pm nightly in the Town Hall except 8:45pm
on Saturday nights and 8:00pm on final night (Sunday 22nd of March)
when that night's performance was followed by the presentation of
prizes.
Click here to see more photos from the 2009 opening night.
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KATS Win the Blue Riband Award
Frank Commins (KATS)
Photo: © Michael Donnelly |
KATS won the 2009 Blue Riband Award (The Ray Leonard Memorial Trophy) and the Best Play Award in the Open competition.
Pictured left: Pauline Byrne (Adjudicator), Frank Commins (KATS) and Pauline Leonard.
Compantis Lir claimed the Best Play Award in the Confined competition.
The full results for 2009 are now available here. |
Mary O'Rourke Performed 2009 Official Opening Mary O'Rourke
Photo: © Michael Donnelly |
Mary
O'Rourke performed the official opening of the drama
festival on Friday March 13th at 8.20pm.
Mary comes from a family steeped in Amateur Drama, her father Patrick Lenihan founded The All-Ireland drama festival in Athlone. He also wrote radio plays, he became a close friend of John B Keane when John B visited Athlone with the Listowel Players with their production of "Sive".
The Claremorris Festival organisers are delighted that Mary came to Claremorris to perform the opening in 2009. |
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