The Healy-Raes are embarking on a world tour of Kerry through a new play written by Killarney storyteller and actor Ray O’Sullivan. The Rise and Rise of the Healy-Raes is set to take to the stage at the Ivy Leaf Art Centre here in Castleisland on this Saturday night at 8pm. An additional, local interest…
Jerome Stack has been the director of the Kerry Drama Festival for the past 30 years. He’s been in the position since the revival of the festival in 1988 after it had lapsed in 1971. There’s no one in a better position than Jerome to realise how privileged local audiences have been with so many…
Panto Time at Scoil Naomh Charthaigh / Castleisland Boys’ National School is always a great generator of excitement. You could almost see it glow. Pupils and teachers get really stuck in and they’re guaranteed a sell-out, two-night run at the Ivy Leaf Art Centre. The teachers and the lads have been working assiduously for the…
The 2016 Kerry Drama Festival will get under way on this Friday night from 7-30pm. Held under the auspices of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland at the Ivyleaf Art Centre, Castleisland, it will run from tonight up to and including Saturday March 12th. Shows nightly at 8pm. The festival has been held in the…
The Island Players are back in action again this year with another rip roaring comedy guaranteed to have their audiences laughing from start to finish. The play Don’t Dress for Dinner was written in French by Marc Camoletti and set in Paris but was translated by Robin Haydon and set in London. Gourmet Delights In…
Jerome Stack may be better known to theatre audiences here as the director of the Island Players. In tuxedo and bow tie, he is the man who introduces guests and groups to the Ivy Leaf Art Centre at the annual Kerry Drama Festival each March since 1988. However, a cast of loyal customers in the…
The 28th annual Kerry Drama Festival was opened at the Ivy Leaf Arts Centre on Friday night by Máire Holmes – the Kerry County Council Writer in Residence at 730pm. The event was due to run until Saturday night next but it has been stretched to the following night because of circumstances which could not…
The 28th annual Kerry Drama Festival will be held at the Ivy Leaf Arts Centre here in Castleisland from and including this Friday, March 6th to Saturday, March 14th. Open groups account for six of the nine nights with the three others in the confined category. A great nine nights of top class entertainment are…
Ballymacelligott Drama Group is putting on a production of Wedding of the Year at the Ivy Leaf Art Centre, Castleisland on three weekend nights later this month. Audiences can catch the play, written by Norman Robbins, from and including: Friday February 20th., Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd at 8pm nightly. “What better way is there to forget…
Zyber Theatre presents CrissCross, a new play by John Fraher at the Ivy Leaf Art Centre here in Castleisland on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 5th, 6th and 7th at 8pm nightly. “The play is set in a public house somewhere in the author’s head.! God help us all! The time is The Past, or…
