The Tipperary Drama Festival is congratulating local playwright Jim Keane and Suir Productions for entering this year’s Festival. Donal Duggan, says Jim Keane’s Play “A Living Will” deserves to reach a wider audience and predicts that it could become a future stable for dramatic society productions.
In addition, as the Festival is part of the qualifying rounds for the National Drama Festival Suir Productions will receive detailed feedback from the adjudicator Ms Irene O’Meara. The play is a family drama about the extended Flynn family who live on the Tipperary/Limerick border.
Suir Productions are not entering any other Festivals on the Circuit which means that they cannot qualify for the National Finals as plays compete on the basis of their cumulative score over any three of the 8 Festivals on the Circuit. The play is to be staged on Sunday March 23rd in Holycross as part of 9 consecutive nights of the Tipperary Drama Festival which begins on March 21st – each night the performances begin at 8.30pm except for the final night when the play begins at 8pm.
The membership of Suir Productions ranges from across the county but the group has been adopted by Knockavilla Community hall – which will host a production of the play on Friday March 21st at 8pm.
Thurles Drama Group are the only other Tipperary Group in the Festival at the Holycross Community Centre for their production of “Rathmines Road” on Tuesday March 25th.Full details of the Tipperary Drama Festival are available on the website tipperarydrama.ie
