‘The Commitee of Westport MiiSummor's Ale Wesk are pleased to ‘welcome te wating Sige Drama Ciclo in thir Gt vl to Westpor. ‘go Oraina Cielo wae founded in 1956 Since then it hae presentos lye By malor Wen, European end American playwrgns In 1006 tho Orama Cicto was invted to porto plays by Yeats a8 pa ol the programe of the Yesls Ilemationsl Summer Schock. Arising cut of this comment, the group fon a programme of shot ‘ummorsoasons of pays. in 1970 It was decided to extond the Summer soazon 6 a contribution to Sig's tourist Industry and as a moans of talping to finance the busing of @ parmanent theatre in Sige Every Success to WESTPORT MID-SUMMER'S ARTS WEEK LIAM LYONS Photographer BRIDGE STREET WESTPORT "Phone 11. WESTPORT MID-SUMMER’S ARTS WEEK Present SLIGO DRAMA CIRCLE aa Db A” (BY HUGH LEONARD) SUNDAY, 11th JULY, 8.30 p.m. Town Hall, Westport ez Programme 10p “SB ‘Me oe, soy tl nthe tnd exact fooving ‘Sean ‘ulnoes Sto. eae: Waroot UDG 2 of th Maton na ins rom kemééy. Source Protearephc Archive‘A PLAY IN TWO ACTS (By Hugh Leonard) cast CHARLIE (Now) Cormac Sheridan. OLIVER a Jim Holohan. DA wes. ssseseees iam McKinney. MOTHER ccreeseeenisseeee Pauline MeNiffe. YOUNG CHARLIE (Then) Theo Bourke. MR. DRUMM 0... Padraig Foran. MRS. PRYNNE Sheila Kilcoyne. THE YELLOW PERIL Sheila Horan. Action takes place in the kitchen/living-room of a Corporation house and in neutral areas represent- ing the hilltop, the sea front, a garden, etc. Time—May, 1968 and later, times remembered. Ty anita Lighting—Barry McKinney, Dave Meehan, and assisted by Seamus Gavin, Westport. Tapes—Padraig Foran Sets—Charles Dolan, Liam McKinney, ‘Joe Meehan. Stage Manager—Bernadette Forde. Assistant Stage Managers : Charles Dolan, Adrienne & Joan Sheridan. Production—Joe Meehan. [A witer on the 1979 Dublin Theat Festival “Plays and Players” faotorted that of the 18 oF so offilally sponsored productions, Hugh Leonards "DA" strolled away wih the top honours Now snown to phic play, tells of the rtum home of @ funeral and otter last lfare bbe a deeply autobi successul playwright to arrange th of hie fotter tater, an uneducated gardener of 80 odd yours. As the winds things up, memories and ghosts fil his mind end the stago of Ne younger eal, nie mater, a ond, an empoysr, and cbove all of "DA™ and the complex bond between them for which love ie both too arand and too simon word HUGH LEONARD hes bean wing suoscssul plays for almost twenty years, He was one of the orginal script writes for Rao Eresnn’s popular serial “The Kennedys of Caslorss", Leonard received international eeagation wit “Stephen 0", his adaptation of James Joyce's classic novela of autobiography. The play wes promiores at ® Oubln These Festival end lner played London and Pirie to wide ertoal acclnin. His ply have offen been Nigh ‘ion of Theatre Festus, These include "The Poker Sesion “Pavick Poorse Mote’, Os", "Summer", and “Iishmen”. His ‘mary teleuislon works Inclide the worlwide comedy success,