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Best Actress:
Mary Condron - Thurles Drama Group (for the part of Amanda Wingfield
in The Glass Menagerie)
Best Actor:
Sean Smyth - K.A.T.S. Galway (for the part of Joe Keller in All
My Sons)
Best Supporting Actress:
Dolores Hannon - Lough Gill Players (for the part of Helen in
The Cripple of Inismaan)
Best Supporting Actor:
Eanna O'Donnell - Coolera Dramatic Society (for the part of Liam
Scuab in Sive)
Best Stage Setting:
Dunmore Amateur Dramatic Society (Thief Of A Christmas)
Special Award - Best Moment of Drama:
Coolera Dramatic Society (Sive)
Special Award - Adjudicator's Choice:
Dunmore Amateur Dramatic Society (Thief Of A Christmas)
(for live music aspect - Aine Sheridan on concertina & Brian
Keating on flute)
Best Director - Open:
Paddy Henry - K.A.T.S. Galway (All My Sons)
Best Director - Confined:
George Bruen - Dunmore Amateur Dramatic Society (Thief Of A Christmas)
Main Award - Open:
1st place - K.A.T.S. Galway (All My Sons)
2nd place - Thurles Drama Group (The Glass Menagerie)
3rd place - Coolera Dramatic Society (Sive)
Main Award - Confined:
1st place - Dunmore Amateur Dramatic Society (Thief Of A Christmas)
2nd place - Skibbereen Theatre Society (The Memory Of Water)
3rd place - The Cloonacool Players (Moll)
Perpetual Award:
K.A.T.S. Galway (All My Sons)
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Best
Actress: Sponsored by Hugh Baxter, Cerena Consulting
Hugh Baxter (Cerena Consulting) presenting Mary Condron
- Thurles Drama Group (for the part of Amanda Wingfield
in The Glass Menagerie) |
Best
Actor: Sponsored by Tom Madden Meats. Tom Madden (Madden
Meats) presenting Maragert Egan, accepting on behalf of,
Sean Smyth - K.A.T.S. Galway (for the part of Joe Keller
in All My Sons) |
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Supporting Actress: Sponsored by McNulty's Carpet, lighting
and Furniture. Dolores Hannon - Lough Gill Players (for
the part of Helen in The Cripple of Inismaan) |
Best
Supporting Actor: Sponsored by, Ms Brid Miller, Solicitor.
Marie McCrann, sponsorship committee, presenting Maureen
Carroll, producer/director, on behalf of Eanna O'Donnell
- Coolera Dramatic Society (for the part of Liam Scuab in
Sive) |
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| Best
Stage Setting: Sponsored by, Sean Cox Electrical. Mary Cox,
Vice Chairperson, presenting, George Bruen producer/ director,
Dunmore Amateur Dramatic Society (Thief Of A Christmas) |
Special
Award - Best Moment of Drama: Sponsored by Fleming's Supervalu.
Doreen Conlon, Joint Treasurer, presenting Coolera Dramatic
Society (Sive). |
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Award - Adjudicator's Choice: Sponsored by Dr Pat McHugh.
Dr Pat McHugh presenting George Bruen producer/director,
Dunmore Amateur Dramatic Society (Thief Of A Christmas)
(for live music aspect - Aine Sheridan on concertina &
Brian Keating on flute) |
Best
Director - Open: Sponsored by Denis Naughton,TD. Denis Naughton,
TD, presenting Margaret Egan accepting on behalf of Paddy
Henry - K.A.T.S. Galway (All My Sons) |
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Best
Director - Confined: Sponsored by Brendan Kelly Engineering.
Evelyn Killeen, presenting to George Bruen producer/director
- Dunmore Amateur Dramatic Society
(Thief Of A Christmas) |
Main
Award - Open: Sponsored by Property Partners Earley. David
Diffley, presenting to Maragert Egan accepting on behalf
of K.A.T.S. Galway (All My Sons) |
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Award - Confined: Sponsored by Roscommon Herald. Mairead
O'Shea presenting George Bruen producer/director Dunmore
Amateur Dramatic Society (Thief Of A Christmas) |
Perpetual
Award: Sponsored by O'Brien's Pharmacy. David Hynes presenting
to Maragert Egan, accepting on behalf of K.A.T.S. Galway
(All My Sons) |
The
above photos are courtesy of Michelle Hurson, Hurson
Photography
Our
2007 Adjudicator
Bríd McBride, journalist, theatre critic and broadcaster
is passionate about drama and writing and has been doing
both almost since she took her first steps on the Louth/Armagh
border where she still lives. She
ventures further afield to review arts happenings for The
Eleventh Hour, Rattlebag and their predecessor, The Arts
Show on Radio l. She has researched, produced and presented
documentary type programmes for both the BBC and RTE.
Bríd
is honoured to adjudicate the re-launched Roscommon Festival
and is looking forward to seeing some exciting theatre and
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More about Bríd
Adjudicating drama festivals at home and abroad takes up most
of her time. In 1996 she adjudicated an International Festival
in Racine Wisconsin and the following year the American National
Finals in Grand Rapids Michigan. Then it was to Canada - the New
Brunswick Provincial
Festival, the World Festival of Children's Theatre in Toyama Japan,
the Eastern States Finals in Delaware, USA and The All-Ireland
One Act Festival in Siamsa Tire, Tralee. She
has worked consistently since 2000 as an adjudicator for the US
Army Europe judging their 3 Act Festival which takes place over
a six week period in Springtime at a multitude of venues from
Italy to Belgium, Germany, England and places in between. Recently
she judged the Army’s One Act Festival in Heidelberg, Germany.
Twenty-two groups travelled in from bases in Turkey, Korea and
mainland Europe to compete for the prestigious prizes on offer.
Last year Bríd adjudicated the American International Festival
which was held in Midland Texas. Groups from Singapore, the U.S.,
Monaco, Catalonia, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Tunisia and Syria
participated.
She has had a story published in the Sunday Miscellany book edited
by Marie Heaney. One of the highlights of her career so far was
the opportunity to interview Nobel Prize Winning poet Seamus Heaney
in the Linenhall Library, Belfast. Since 2002 Brid has been President
of the Dundalk International Maytime Festival which last year
celebrated it’s 42nd. Anniversary. During that time Dundalk
has welcomed performers and visitors from all corners of the globe
including Japan, South Korea, Beijing China, all corners of America,
Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Iceland, Germany. In 2006 Bríd
and the Maytime Festival Committee were awarded the County and
Regional Failte Ireland Welcome Awards for going that extra mile
in welcoming visitors to Dundalk.
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