Western Drama Festival
One Act Festival, 21st to 23rd November 2024
Nightly at 8.00pm
THURSDAY 21st NOVEMBER, PLAY 1
Bailieborough Drama Group, Co. Cavan, presents ‘DYING MINUTES’ By Liz O’Hanlon
The play is set in a pub on a Monday morning. The question is, ‘why would anyone be in a pub on a Monday morning?’ We get a glimpse into the world of the self-proclaimed misfits. We laugh with them, we empathise with them, we may even recognise them.
THURSDAY 21st NOVEMBER, PLAY 2:
Upstage Players, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, presents ‘INVISIBLE’ By Robert Holden & Tim Oates
Two married couples get together regularly to play games, but is everything as it seems between the four of them? Adult theme.
THURSDAY 21st NOVEMBER, PLAY 3
Castleconnor Amateur Dramatic Society, Co. Sligo, presents ‘THE ACT OF LIVING’ By Robert Scott
This is a romantic drama that follows Tom and Evelyn's relationship, from their meeting as children through to old age. As an old man, Tom looks back across the years to re-live their time together. This play is nostalgic, funny, and warm and is sure to bring enjoyment to the audience.
FRIDAY 22nd NOVEMBER, PLAY 1
Erne Drama Group, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, presents ‘WAITING FOR YOU’ By Mark O’Leary
‘Waiting For You’ tells the story of two strangers who meet in a doctor's waiting room, both unhappy with the directions in which their lives are heading, but their relentless wait is interrupted by a stream of other questionable patients.
FRIDAY 22nd NOVEMBER, PLAY 2
Butt Drama Circle, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal, presents ‘A MATTER OF RIGHTS’ By Conor Malone
Da doesn’t like immigrants. There’s too many of them. And the ones who aren’t skiving off handouts are taking our jobs. He’s just spent three months in prison, arrested for breach of the peace at a protest. The hostel he was protesting outside burned down. His son doesn’t approve of his Dad’s views, or his actions. Now that he’s home he’s determined to have it out with him. A powerful new play examining a fractured family and the fractured society that is Ireland today.
FRIDAY 22nd NOVEMBER, PLAY 3
Wilde River Group, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, presents ‘AUBADE’ By Mark Yeats
Successful Businesswoman Melissa returns home to Dublin from a four-night conference in Cork. Writer husband Philip has cooked her favourite dinner to welcome her home. Their time apart may have been brief, but it has raised questions about trust, the stability of their relationship and old wounds.
SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2024, PLAY 1
Carlow Little Theatre, Co. Carlow, presents ‘3 KINGS’ By Barry McKinley
3 Kings is set against a backdrop of wintry Montana. Three convicts plan to break out of a penitentiary by scaling a Christmas tree and jumping the prison wall. Things don’t go according to plan during the breakout. The men realise that everything had changed and their ‘heroic’ escape on Christmas Eve has turned into a murder ballad. Only two men will survive in this frozen backcountry. But which two?
SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2024, PLAY 2
Ennis Players, Co. Clare, presents ‘DRAGONFLIES’ By Liam McCarthy
The Pery Players, a local drama group, are rehearsing for tomorrow night’s opening performance of ‘The Mayflies’. As with all last-minute rehearsals, everything is not going to plan. One of the leading ladies can’t remember her lines, or even to show up. The director and her husband are at loggerheads, and everyone seems to be in love with the wrong person!
SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2024, PLAY 3
Gunpowder Productions, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, presents ‘SEMPER FIDELIS’ By Henry Hudson
The play is set in Barney’s room in St. Marks, an old friary house. The play is based on clerical sexual abuse in boarding schools. It focuses on one brother who is the pride of his mother and parish for being chosen for a scholarship at St. Jerome’s college. For the brother himself, it deals with the legacy it has left with him for his life and how he will live out his twilight years.
