29TH SKERRIES ONE-ACT DRAMA FESTIVAL - RESULTS

 

Open Category:

1st: The Seduction of Chaos - Kinnerton Players

2nd: When the Wine is Cold - Ballaly Players

3rd: Five Kinds of Silence - Martello Productions


Confined Category:

1st: Stay Carl Stay - Coolgreany Amateur Dramatic Society

2nd: Nancy Friday - Rush Dramatic Society

3rd: The Proposal - Kilrush Dramatic Group
 

Best Director: Sally Stevens - Coolgreany Amateur Dramatic Society

Best Actor: Gerry Herbert - Kinnerton Players

Best Supporting Actor: Carl Nuzum - Coolgreany Amateur Dramatic Society

Best Actress: Clare O Donovan - Ballaly Players

Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Corcoran - Kinnerton Players

Best Staged Play: The Virtuous Burglar - Theatre 3. 

Best Costumed Play: When the Wine is Cold - Ballaly Players

Adjudicator Award: Mark Yeates - Rush Dramatic Society

 

29TH SKERRIES ONE-ACT DRAMA FESTIVAL

NOVEMBER 13TH - NOVEMBER 15TH 2014

ADJUDICATOR: DONAL COURTNEY

THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2014

Five Kinds of Silence

by Sheelagh Stephenson

MARTELLO PRODUCTIONS, SHANKILL

(OPEN)

 

Billy: Declan Ryan

Mary: Deirdre Malone

Susan: Orla Malone

Janet: Kate Dowling

Policeman, Detective, Police Inspector, Psychiatrist, Lawyer: Dave Butler

 

Stage Manager: James Malone

Lighting: Andrew Scales

 

Director: Trevor Bailey

 

Martello Productions was founded forty years ago in Dun Laoghaire. The group has about thirty members and produces two plays a year, one for the One-Act Festival circuit, and one full-length play which they perform each spring in Rathmichael National School in Shankill, south Co. Dublin. Martello has also performed in the Wakefield Drama Festival in Yorkshire on six occasions and in the Manx Amateur Drama Festival of Plays since 1985. The group won the Manx Festival three times, most recently in 2013 with Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats

 

THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2014

The Proposal

BY CHEKHOV, Translated by Julius West

KILRUSH DRAMA GROUP, CO. WEXFORD

(CONFINED)

 

Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov: Maurice Ruth

Natalya Stepanovna: Ellie Condron

Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov:  Tim Connaughton

 

Stage Crew: Roy Douglas, Ger Byrne, Tommy Kavanagh, Kevin Mulholland

Sound: Paddy Byrne, Dougie Doyle

Lighting: Mick Byrne

Make Up: Ellie Condren

 

Director: Mick Byrne

 

Kilrush Drama Group celebrated their 50th anniversary earlier this year having been founded by current Director Mick Byrne in 1964. As part of their celebrations the group launched a book of photos, facts and stories from down through the years entitled Drama at Kilrush. Over the fifty years, the group has produced seventy- one plays and has appeared in the All-Ireland 3-Act Finals on sixteen occasions.

 

 

THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2014

The Virtuous Burglar

BY Dario Fo

THEATRE 3, NEWTOWNABBEY

(OPEN)

 

Burglar: Paul Cuming

Burglar’s Wife: Eileen Lisk

Man: David McKechnie

Woman: Carolynne Lisk

Anna: Jacqui Neill

Antonio: Harry Montgomery

Second Burglar: Jim Neill

 

Asst Director: Trevor Doonan

Stage Manager/Props: Gayna Beresford

Sound and Lighting: John Beresford

Assisted by: Marc Dallas

Set Design: Alex Macauley

Set Construction: Pat Sweeney

Artwork: Michael Dunne

Stage Crew: Members of the Company

 

Director: Alex Macauley

 

Theatre 3 was formed in 1984 when three companies in the Newtownabbey area decided to join forces. In the last thirty years, Theatre 3 have produced a multiple of plays. They are regularly to be seen on the festival circuits and have had numerous appearances in Ulster, Irish and British finals.

 

FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2014

THE LESSON

BY Eugene Ionesco

ON Q THEATRE COMPANY, CO KILDARE

(OPEN)

 

The Professor: Noel Creaner

The Pupil: Lisa Neville

The Maid: Bernie Byrne

   

Lighting and Sound: Jude Hynes

Stage Manager: Paul Cullen

 

Director: Carol Ryan

 

ON Q Theatre Company was formed in 2007 by a group of friends with a drama background. They stage at least two shows every year – including entries into the One-Act Festivals

 

FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2014

WHEN THE WINE IS COLD

BY John McKendrick

BALLALY PLAYERS, DUNDRUM

(OPEN)

Catherine: Claire O’Donovan

Martin: Barry Kinsella

 

Production: Doris Cullen

Stage Manager: Pat Hand

Set Designer: Louis O’Byrne

Lighting: Gary Wall

Costumes: Dympna Murray

 

Director: Joe Jordan

 

Ballaly Players based in Dundrum in south Dublin, have been competing on the One-Act Festival circuit since the 1980s and have enjoyed considerable success over the years.

 

FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2014

Stay Carl Stay

BY Peter Tolan

COOLGREANY AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY, CO. WEXFORD

(CONFINED)

 

Caroline: Sally Stevens

Brian: Paul Ivory

Mary Sue: Denise Moules

Bingo: Richard Lister

Dr Weiss: Eadoin Ni Lionain

Carl: Carl Nuzum

 

Lighting: Philip Redmond

Sound: Paul Delaney

Set Design: Sally Stevens

Costume Design: Sally Stevens

Set Construction: Philip Redmond, Andy Kinsella

Stagehands: Samantha Cullen, Andy Kinsella, Gemma Devaney

 

Director: Sally Stevens

 

Coolgreany Amateur Dramatic Society is five years old, and has produced ten plays in those years. This is the group’s third time to enter the One Act Festival Circuit.  In 2013 they got third place in the Confined Competition with The Donahue Sisters by Geraldine Aron. This year they are proud to have hosted their own One-Act Drama Festival

 

SATURDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2014

Nancy Friday

by Mark Yeates

RUSH DRAMATIC SOCIETY

(CONFINED)

 

Woman: Grainne Finn

Man: Mark Yeates

 

Stage Design:  Petrona Devine

Lights/Sound: Pat McDyer

 

Director: Alan White

 

Rush Dramatic Society was founded in 1927, having its roots in the Gaelic League.  It has been in continuous activity ever since. RDS finished second in the confined section of the 2012 One-Act Festivals held in Ballyduff, with their production of The Problem by A.R. Guerney

 

SATURDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2014

The SEDUCTION OF CHAOS

BY CHEKHOV, Kent R Brown

KINNERTON PLAYERS, HAROLD’S CROSS, DUBLIN

(OPEN)

Arthur Franklin: Gerry Herbert

Jackie White: Liza Deegan

The Woman: Ellen Corcoran

 

Lighting: Brian Nutley

Sound: Caitriona Connolly

Stage Manager: Barbara Allen

 

Director: Maria Blaney

 

Kinnerton Players was formed in 2013 by Maria Blaney and is based in Harold’s Cross, Dublin.This will be their second year taking part in the One-Act Festival Circuit. They won the Skerries Open Competition last year with The Insanity of Mary Girard by Lanie Robertson.

 

 

SATURDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2014

VOLPONE

BY Ben Jonson, adapted by Michael Ryan

BLUE HAT PRODUCTIONS, CORK

(CONFINED)

 

Volpone: Seamus Linehan

Mosca: Michael Ryan

Voltore: Tom O’Brien

Corbaccio: Brendan Ryan

Corvino: Sean Kelleher

Bonario: Gerard O’Reilly

Celia: Claire O’Regan

Sir Politick: Susan Sands

Peregrine: Deirdre Dunlea

Judge: James Murphy

Court Clerk: Bryan Carroll

 

Lighting: Linda Barrett

Sound: Caroline Foley

Make Up: Susan Sands                          

Stage Manager: Deirdre Dunlea

Stage Crew/Set: Bryan Carroll, James Murphy 

        

Director: Caroline Foley

 

Blue Hat Productions is based in Whitechurch, Co Cork. The club was set up on 2001 and first became involved in the One-Act Festival circuit in 2005. The club usually has a one-act production for winter, and a full-length play for the spring. This year, for the first time, they have entered plays in both the Open and Confined sections of the circuit. They have a strong and dedicated team of actors, directors and technical crew and they look forward to performing on the 2014 festival circuit