WELCOME
Navan Theatre Group is an amateur drama and theatre group based in Navan, County Meath. We have a diverse and growing membership.
Since 1991 we have performed a full length play each November and more recently have performed one acts plays in the spring. We are also committed to developing skills within the group and this year we have commenced a number of workshops for members.
We rehearse in the Community Centre in Navan and our performances take place in Solstice Arts Centre, Navan.
We would be delighted to hear from people interested in joining our group and assisting with all aspects of our productions.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Seamus Culligan, the original designer of our logo, Deirdre Gannon for the website banner and graphic design advice, David Mullen and members of Navan Theatre Group for photographs, Mark Gaffney for website management and Raymond Cullen for designing and updating the website. Submissions for website content can be made to info@navantheatregroup.ie
The Cast of “The Plough and the Stars” (November 2016)
Back row: Eoin Kenny, Ray O’Hare. Middle row: Trudy Smyth, Nigel Ryan, Joanne Donoghue, Mick Roban, James O’Connell, Patrick Fox, Jim O’Leary, Paula Gibney. Seated: Ciara Cooney, Adele Crilly, Gina Lumsden
The Plough and the Stars
November 2016
Navan Theatre Group is delighted to announce that our November production will be the Seán O’Casey classic play “The Plough and the Stars” and will be directed by Caitríona Heslin.
Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising 1916, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time. Through banter and tragic comedy O’Casey gives life to some of the most entertaining characters in Irish drama. The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through the city’s streets less than half a mile away. A revolution that will shape the future rages around them. What kind of Ireland awaits them? O’Casey’s drama engages us in a heart-breaking tragedy played out with stoic humour and searing wit. It is a scathing critique of the romantic nationalism of this turbulent era in Irish history. The Plough and the Stars is regarded as a masterpiece, and an essential part of our understanding of 1916.
Cast :
Fluther Good
Mrs. Gogan
Peter Flynn
The Young Cove
Nora Clitheroe
Bessie Burgess
Jack Clitheroe
Capt. Brennan
Mollser
Bar-tender
Rosie Redmond
Figure in the Window
Lieut. Langon
Woman from Rathmines
Corporal Stoddart
Sergeant Tinley
Jim O’Leary
Joanne Donoghue
Mick Roban
Patrick Fox
Adele Crilly
Trudy Smyth
James O’Connell
Nigel Ryan
Ciara Cooney
Séamus McMenamin
Gina Lumsden
Ray O’Hare
Eoin Kenny
Paula Gibney
Eoin Kenny
Ray O’Hare