Open Night
Wed 1 Sept at 8:30pm St Olaf's
Balally Players Open Night will take place on Wed 1 September at 8:30pm in St Olaf's GAA Club (see map on Links page). The evening will give the new Committee an opportunity to outline the programme for the year. Past, present and future Balally Players members are invited to meet and mingle.
All Ireland One Act Finals
The All Ireland Drama Finals (www.dli.ie) supported by Balally Players, is taking place in The Mill Theatre, Dundrum from 3 to 5 December this year. It is a great tribute to the success of the previous Festivals run by Jean Monahan that the hosting of the Finals was awarded to Balally Players. Festival Director this year is Karen Carleton and she is already working with many Balally Players members on plans for the Festival.
Pub Quiz - Wed 8 Sept
Funds are needed and any assistance in fundraising would be really appreciated. There will be a Pub Quiz in The Rockfield Lounge, Dundrum - 8.00pm on Wed 8th September to raise funds for the All Ireland Drama Finals in The Mill Theatre, Dundrum. The Rockfield Lounge is just beside the Balally Luas stop, across from the Dundrum Town Centre. It would be great if you could come and bring your friends and family to fill a table or two (4 per table) to help meet our target of 40 tables.
Romeo & Juliet
Midsummer Shakespeare
Shakespeare returned to the Mill Theatre and the gardens of Airfield House in June with a wonderful, energetic, 'fresh air' performance of 'Romeo and Juliet', presented by Balally Players and directed by Karen Carleton.
The play was on stage in the Mill Theatre from Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 June.
Immediately after the Mill, the play moved outdoors to the grounds of Airfield House, Dundrum where it was performed from Saturday 19 to Monday 21 June.
The final performance in Airfield, on Midsummer's Day, was played on a warm, sunny evening to a full and very appreciative audience.
To read more about 'Romeo and Juliet' and to see pictures taken at the Mill Theatre and Airfield, visit the page for the play in Productions.
Welcome to our New Home
The builders have left - well, almost!
Our website was completely rebuilt and launched in its present form on 27 May 2010. Apart from giving it a new look and layout, we took the opportunity to reorganise the content and add some new features and functions.
The foundations are solid, the walls are up and the roof doesn't leak, but you might find some doors don't yet take you to the room you expect. Like every new home, there are a few bits of furniture to be sorted out and some areas still need a lick of paint, wallpaper or plaster to smooth over the inevitable humps and hollows. Having said that, barring a few squeaks and draughts, which we'll fix over the summer, this is our new home and you're very welcome!
The pioneers who built the original website for Balally Players created a site that has served us very well for many years. Time and technology have moved fast and the number of people using the web every day to get information and keep in touch has grown just as quickly. What's possible and what's expected in a website like this is now very different. But what hasn't changed is the voluntary effort devoted to maintaining it, so where possible, many of the new features have been automated to allow you to help yourself. Examples include the new Mailing List, Contact Form, Update Notifications (RSS News Feeds and Facebook), site Search facility and the Photo Gallery, which can store high and low resolution images and make them available for you to view and/or download.
Our email address has not changed, but try the new email form on the Contact page. It gives us some more flexibility in the receipt and handling of your emails.
The Plough and the Stars
Seven Festival Performances in February and March
Following a week in the Mill Theatre in Dundrum, the group's production of this Seán O'Casey play took to the road for a series of performances in the National Drama Festival between 24 February and 27 March. Full details, including photographs, are in the Productions section of the site.
Search the Site
This search facility will find references to plays, people or anything else within the pages of this website. It's great for searching past performances, newsletters or text witin PDF files anywhere on our website.
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You may also use Google to find items that it has indexed, but it may not include recent entries. The launch of our new website on a different server with a new structure rendered many of the existing Google indexes invalid. Their facility will start to work again as Google reindexes the site.
