GLENAMADDY PLAYERS
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Results To Date
Newtownstewart - 2nd
Best Actress - Tina Ward
Best Set of the Festival
Nominated for Best Director Coman Keaveny and Best Actor Cian Boyle
Enniskillen - Result Pending
Roscommon 2nd
Nominated for Best Actress - Tina Ward
Nominated for Best Actor - Cian Boyle
Lislea 1st
Premier Award
Best Director Coman Keaveny
Best Actor Cian Boyle
Best Lighting Declan Walsh
Audience Award
Best Moment of Theatre
Nominated for Best Actress - Tina Ward
Nominated for Best Stage Setting
Mountmellick 1st
Best Director Coman Keaveny
Claregalway 1st
Best Director Coman Keaveny
Best Actor Cian Boyle
Best Actress Tina Ward
Best Overall Production
Nominated for Best Sound
Nominated for Imaginative Set
Shercock 1st
Best Overall Perfomance Cian Boyle
Best Lighting Declan Walsh
Nomination for Best Performance Tina Ward
Latest News -
Glenamaddy Players are back on the Festival Circuit with their production of Christian O'Reilly's "The Good Father". They will be performing at the following venues
Saturday 24st Feb 2018 Newtownstewart Co. Tyrone
Saturday 3rd Mar 2018 Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh
Sunday 4th Mar 2018 Roscommon
Saturday 10th Mar 2018 Lislea, Co Armagh
Sunday 11th Mar 2018 Mountmelick Co. Laois
Sunday 18th Mar 2018 Shercock Co Cavan
Monday 19th Mar 2018 Claregalway
Thursday 22nd Mar 2018 Glenamaddy
Friday 30th Mar 2018 Glenamaddy (Good Friday)
History of Group -
Based in Glenamaddy, Co.Galway the Glenamaddy Players (originally called Playgroup 72) are an Amateur Dramatic Group founded nearly 30 years ago. This Website is dedicated to the members both past and present for their involvement and dedication to the Group and is a celebration of the groups achievements since its foundation in 1972.The website includes listings of the previous productions performed by the group, the latest production, photo galleries, history of the group and many more features. We would like to thank everybody for their contributions in generating this website and hope that you the viewer be you a current or past member or simply browsing, enjoy our compilation.To date there have been approximately 30 productions completed between 3 Act Plays and 1 Act Performances. During their many years on the Festival circuit the group have performed in various festivals ranging from Ballyshannon and Shercock in the North to Doonbeg, Scarriff and Ballyduff in the South. In addition they are noted for their appearances in the Connaught Festivals such as Claremorris, Claregalway and Tubbercurry.The group have qualified on a number of occasions for the All Ireland Finals, originally in 1985 with their production of "Big Maggie" and most recently with their productions of "The Communication Cord" in 2000 and "Eclipsed" in 2002. In 2013 after a long absence Glenamaddy Players qualified for the All-Ireland Finals in Rossmore, Co.Cork with their production of Moment by Deirdre Kinahan. This was followed in 2014 with the very highly successful "Agnes of God" which again reached the All-Ireland Finals in Claremorris winning four festivals on the circuit. As with 2013 there were numerous awards won on the festival circuit. In the Autumn of 2014 the Players staged "Rumors" by Neil Simon in the Town Hall Theatre, Glenamaddy with good crowds attending a highly entertaining show. Last year we saw the Players back on the circuit with "Stolen Child" which was directed again by Coman Keaveny. Once again the Players qualified for the All-Ireland. 2016 sees Glenamaddy Players again qualifying for the All-Ireland with brilliant interpretation of Marsha Norman's night Mother.