Festival

Rush Drama Festival 2010

2010 Rush Drama Festival Winners 

Open Competition
1st Place - Estuary Players (There Came a Gypsy riding)
2nd Place - Bridge Drama (Blithe Spirit)
3rd Place - Wexford Drama Group (Translations)

Best Director
Myra Maguire Estuary Players There Came A Gypsy Riding

Confined Competition
1st Place - Kilrush Drama Group ( On Raftery's Hill)
2nd Place - Glenamaddy Players ( Moonshine)
3rd Place - Crokey Hill Players ( The Banshee of Crokey Hill)

Best Director 
Mick Byrne, Kilrush Drama Group, On Raftery's Hill

 

Wednesday 24th February until Friday the 5th March 2010

 

Rush Drama Festival 2010   24th Feb to 5th March Adjudicator: Padraic McIntyre ADA

Date	Performed By:	Play	Author
Wed 24th February	Balally Players	The Plough and the Stars	Sean O'Casey
Thu 25th February	Cuckoo's Nest Theatre Players	The Caretaker	Harold Pinter
Fri 26th February	Kilrush DG	On Raftery's Hill	Marina Carr
Sat 27th February	Glenamaddy Players	Moonshine	Jim Nolan
Sun 28th February	Bunclody/Kilmyshall DG	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller
Mon 1st March	The Crokey Hill Club	The Banshee of Crokey Hill	Tommy Marren
Tue 2nd March	Bridge Drama	Blithe Spirit	Noel Coward
Wed 3rd March	Tinahely DG	White Woman Street	Sebastian Barry
Thu 4th March	Wexford DG	Translations	Brian Friel
Fri 5th March	Estuary Players	There Came a Gypsy Riding	Frank McGuinness

Season Tickets available from Special Discount Price of €80. Nightly Cost €12/€10 (Students etc.) 

2009 Rush Drama Festival Winners

Open Competition
1st Place - Bunclody/Kilmyshall (The Wake)
2nd Place - Balally Players (The Great Hunger)
3rd Place - Nenagh Players (Tuesdays with Morrie)

Best Director
Geoff O’Keefe Balally Players The Great Hunger

Confined Competition
1st Place - Bridge Drama (Same Old Moon)
2nd Place - The Cloonacool Players (Sive)
No 3rd Place, as only three groups in competition

Best Director
Susan Somers, Bridge Drama Same Old Moon

2009 Rush Drama Festival | Millbank Theatre | Feb 26 - March 7 | Adjudicator Pauline Byrne
Date	Performed By	Play	Writer
Thurs 26 Feb	Lurig Drama Group Antrim	I Do Not Like Thee Dr Fell	Bernard Farrell
Friday 27 Feb	The Cloonacool Players Sligo	SIVE	John B Keane
Saturday 28 Feb	Gorey Little Theatre Wexford	Broken Glass	Arthur Miller
Sunday 1st March	Bunclody/Kilmyshall Wexford	The Wake	Tom Murphy
Monday 2nd March	Dalkey Players Dublin	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	Christopher Hampton
Tuesday 3rd March	Bridge Drama Wexford	Same Old Moon	Geraldine Aron
Wednesday 4th March	Balally Players Dublin	The Great Hunger	Tom Mac Intyre
Thursday 5th March	Estuary Players Dublin	The Last Days of Judas Iscariot	Stephen Adly Guirgis
Friday 6th March	Nenagh Players Tipperary	Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom
Saturday 7th March	Kilrush Drama Group Wexford	A Skull In Connemara	Martin MacDonagh

 

2007 The 4th Annual Rush Drama Festival | Millbank Theatre | February 22 - March 3
Year	Performed By	Play	Writer
Mar 3	Kileen Drama Group	The Loves of Cass McGuire	Brian Friel
Mar 2	Lifford Players	Moonshine	Jim Nolan
Mar 1	Dundalk Theatre Workshop	Eden	Eugene O'Brien
Feb 28	Bunclody / Kilmyshall Drama Group	Portia Coughlan	Marina Carr
Feb 27	Moate Club	A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen
Feb 26	Kilrush Drama Group	Antigone	Jean Anouilh
Feb 25	Tinahely Variety Group	The Chastitute	John B Keane
Feb 24	Ballycogley Players	From These Green Heights	Dermot Bolger
Feb 23	Gorey Little Theatre Group	Thy Will be Done	Michael Carey
Feb 22	Millrace Drama Group	A & E	Henry Hudson

 

2007 Festival Awards List

Best Play Open Nenagh Players Tom, Dick and Harry by Ray and Michael Cooney 2nd Place Open Moat Club, Naas Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 3rd Place Open Kilmeen Drama Group The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh Best Play Confined Kilrush Drama Group The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh 2nd Place Confined Bridge Drama Group I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell by Bernard Farrell 3rd Place Confined Tinahealy Drama Group One Last White Horse by Dermot Bolger Best Director Open Frank Kirke Moat Club, Naas Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Best Director Confined Pat Whelan Bridge Drama Group I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell by Bernard Farrell Best Actress Open Rachel Murphy as Violet Play On by Rick Abbott (Ballycogley Players) Best Actress Confined Clodagh Cecil as Hester Swain By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr (Ballycogley Players) Best Actor Open Donie Walsh as Billy The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilmeen Drama Group) Best Actor Confined Tony Hickey as Joe I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell by Bernard Farrell (Bridge Drama Group) Best Supporting Actress Open Elaine Connolly as Auntie Eileen The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilmeen Drama Group) Best Supporting Actress Confined Ellie Condon as Slippy Helen The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilrush Drama Group) Best Supporting Actor Open Brendan Hughes as Solomon The Price by Arthur Miller (Estuary Players) Best Supporting Actor Confined Alan O'Neill as Bartley The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilrush Drama Group) Adjudicator's Award Open Pat Connaughton as The Fox Crystal and Fox by Brian Friel (Bunclody/Kilmyshall Drama Group) Adjudicator's Award Confined Tara Murphy as Eileen One Last White Horse by Dermot Bolger (Tinahealy Drama Group) Technical Award Design Open Moat Club, Naas Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Technical Award Confined Sound, Light & Staging Tinahealy Drama Group One Last White Horse by Dermot Bolger Memorial Award (Kathleen Hanratty Award) Papa and his Dog Crystal and Fox by Brian Friel (Bunclody/Kilmyshall Drama Group)