CPC students for Kildare Drama Festival
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| Kildare Drama Festival Committee. |
They will be among five schools from the county which will present 30-minute dramas each on Saturday 3 March.
Kilworth Drama Group will give the opening performance of the 60th year of the Festival, with their production of 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane'.
The programme also includes the Ballyduff Drama Group with 'Albertine in Five Times' (Friday 2 March), Curtain Call Productions' 'Some Girls' (5th), Holycross/Ballycahill's 'Bold Girls' (6th), Kilrush Drama Group's 'The Weir' (7th), Kilmuckridge Drama Group's 'The Seafarer' (8th) and Bridview's 'Stolen Child' (9th).
The adjudicator is Lee Wilson, the founding artistic director of Resurgence Theatre Company in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.
Currently he is developing a world premiere Irish Musical called The Sea Brothers with Ger Clancy, Joanna Crawley, and Kevin Nolan. In addition, he is developing a TV Series with Aircraft Pictures. Lee holds an MFA in Directing from The Lir, Ireland's National Academy of Dramatic Art, Trinity College Dublin.
The Festival was launched last night in the Derby House Hotel, by Noel Cunningham of TV3. Pictured above at the launch are the organising committee (back) Anne Madden; Matthew Dowling; Denis Flood, Chairman; Fr Adrian Carbury, President; Joe Connolly, Vice-President; Ger Fogarty, Margie Sheridan; and (front) Lil Byrne; Ann Fogarty; Ian Weir, Secretary; Edwina Weir, Treasurer; and Mary O’Sullivan.
