AT A GLANCE
Fri 9th Mar-8.00pm
Our Countrys Good
Sat 10th Mar-8.00p.m.
Hedda Gabler
Sun 11th Mar-8.00p.m.
Deadline
Mon 12th Mar-8.00p.m.
The 39 Steps
Tues 13th Mar-8.00p.m.
Shadowlands
Wed 14th Mar-8.00p.m
Proof
Thurs 15th Mar-8.00p.m.
Stella by Starlight
Fri 16th Mar-8.00p.m.
The Importance of being Earnest
Sat 17th Mar-*7.30p.m.
The Good Father.
WELCOME TO CITY OF DERRY DRAMA FESTIVAL
Dave Duggan BBC Radio 4/RTE playwright.
The City of Derry Drama Festival is a nine night amateur drama festival staged annually each spring since 1980. It is affiliated to the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland and the Association of Ulster Drama Festivals. It was founded to celebrate the best of amateur drama, to foster and encourage excellence in amateur production and to make a varied range of dramatic productions accessible to as wide an audience as possible. The festival attracts top, award winning groups from all over Ireland.
The Festival grew out the community passion for amateur drama that was widespread in the city in the late seventies. With representatives from all of the existing drama groups at that time, the late Michael Gillen formed an organising committee and the first City of Derry Drama Festival was staged in the Great Hall of Magee College from 22nd -29th March 1981 with Ray McAnally as the adjudicator.
With the constant support of Derry City Council and local businesses the Festival has continued to flourish and to develop as one of Ireland’s foremost amateur festivals.
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