READINGS AND DRAMATIC PRESENTATIONS 2012

The Drama Workshop for 2012 will be conducted by Niall Henry and Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo.

WEEK ONE READINGS AND EVENTS

Lunch-hour Events:
Monday 30th July:  free lunchtime and afternoon in Sligo town
Tuesday 31st July:  performance of Calvary
Wednesday 1st August:  Visit to Sligo Masonic Temple
Thursday 2nd August:  Drama workshop production
Friday 3rd August: Sister de Lourdes Fahy, “Coole, Ballylee and the Barony of Kiltartan”

Evening Events:

Sunday 29th July: Coach Trip from Yeats Memorial Building to Glencar         
Waterfall, Lough Gill, and Yeats’s Grave at Drumcliffe, 2.30 p.m.
(optional)
Evensong at Drumcliffe Church, 5 p.m. (optional)
Performance of Calvary following service
Welcome Supper and Official Opening, Sligo City Hotel, 7p.m.
Monday 30th July:  Peter Fallon and Peter Sirr, reading
Tuesday 31st July:  Bernard O’Donoghue, reading
Wednesday 1st August:  Seamus Heaney, reading
Thursday 2nd August:  Harry Clifton, reading
Irish Dancing to follow
Friday 3rd August:  Justin Quinn, reading

WEEK TWO READINGS AND EVENTS

Lunch-hour Events:
Monday 6th August:  Walking tour of Sligo
Tuesday 7th August:  Belinda McKeon, reading
Wednesday 8th August:  Outing to Knocknarea and Carrowmore
Maureen Murphy: "Thousands are Sailing": a workshop on Sligo Emigration, 3-4.15pm.
Thursday 9th August:  Student poetry reading
Friday 10th August:  Sligo poets reading

Evening Events:
Monday 6th August: A Traditional Music Extravaganza organized by Steve Wickham
Tuesday 7th August: Sinéad Morrissey, reading
Wednesday 8th August:  Emigration Road: A Dramatic Recital for Two Voices performed by Sean Coyne and Tegolin Knowland, devised and directed by Eamon Grennan
Thursday 9th August:  Ciaran Carson, reading
Friday 10th August: Drama workshop final performance.  Farewell Party after the show at The Glasshouse
 

Drama Workshop production, 2011

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