The annual West Cork One Act Drama Festival takes place in Rossmore from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th of November, promising a weekend of scintillating, tense, and powerful drama, along with plenty of dark comedy.
The festival includes drama groups from across the country as well as several Cork groups including those from Carrig Na Bhfear, Conna, Coachford, and the local Rossmore-based Kilmeen group.
The festival opens on Friday 14th with Coachford Drama Group presenting the tense and thought-provoking A Safe Passage, penned by Kilmeen Drama Group author Irene Kelleher.
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Friday also hosts H. Connolly’s intriguing Daddy’s Gone a Huntin’, staged by Carrig Na Bhfear Drama Group (not recommended for under 16s), and Kilmeen Drama Group’s presentation of From Eden by Stephen Jones, a contemporary Irish play that is tender, warm, and funny.
On Saturday 15th, Doonbeg Drama Group from Clare take to the stage with Catherine McKiernan’s West of Ireland poignant Willow (not recommended for under 16s) followed by Dingle’s Beehive Theatre Production’s performance of the dynamic, and surprising play Nancy Friday by Mark Yeates.
Closing the evening will be Wexford’s Wayside Players with the popular Malachy McKiernan play on friendship and rivalry, The Quiet Land.
The closing night of the festival, on Sunday November 16th, has plenty of comedy with the Conna Drama Group performing Act II of Me and My Friend by Gillian Plowman (not recommended for under 16s), Carlow’s Little Theatre Society bring to the stage the witty and darkly comic Ray Scannell play, The Lithium Waltz, and the Bradán Players from Kildare close the night with another dark comedy, My Mother’s Funeral: The Show by Kelly Jones.
Belinda Wilde is the festival adjudicator, and the top groups from the circuit will progress onto the All-Ireland One Act finals in Tubbercurry.
Co Sligo over the first weekend in December.
The plays take place on the Rossmore stage at 8pm each night.
Patrons are asked to be seated by 7.50 pm.
A season ticket is available for the weekend at a price of €40 and nightly tickets are €15.
Tickets are available at the door or by booking online at the Rossmore Theatre site or via Gr8 Events.
The festival committee would like to thank all the sponsors and patrons for their continued support.
