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Leixlip is a town in north Kildare, Ireland. It is about 12 miles from Dublin city. The Leixlip Theatre Group was formed in 1974. The group has seen many changes over the years but still manages to provide first rate entertainment to the people of Leixlip. The group stages two productions a year, in the Spring and Autumn. We also present the increasingly popular 'Theatrical Pub Crawl' every June.
Unfortunately, Leixlip does not have a proper theatre so most of our performances take place in the function room of The Springfield Hotel in Leixlip. The group are indebted to the Hannigan family for their continued support in providing performance and rehearsal facilities.
The lack of a proper theatre does however present enormous problems in the mounting of a production. Firstly, the group has to build it's own stage and erect it's own stage lighting before the set can be built. The stage, scenery, props, and lights have to be transported to the venue and erected within an 8 - 10 hour period in order to give us time for a dress rehearsal. Normally, our plays run for four nights (Monday - Thursday) and within minutes of the final curtain on the final night, the process is reversed and everything has to be dismantled and stored. We live in hope that one day Leixlip will have a theatre.
Over the years, the group have participated in many Drama festivals and have successfully qualified for the All Ireland finals on numerous occasions. The group have not been as active on the festival front in latter years. We have tended to limit ourselves to the one-act festivals in which we have enjoyed some success. In 1996, the group qualified for the All Ireland one-act finals with Tom Byrne's production of 'Private Wars' by James McClure. Theatrical Pub Crawl
For the past six years, Leixlip has held it's annual festival - the Salmon Festival. This festival takes place in early June and the Theatre Group have contributed considerably to the success of the festival by staging the now famous 'Theatrical Pub Crawl'. The idea is simple. We choose four one-act plays and we perform one play in each of four chosen pubs in the town. The plays are presented consecutively and the audience follows the actors from pub to pub. The plays are presented in the early evening and admittance is free. The crawl has become a very entertaining and popular event. Because of the large numbers attracted by the crawl, the emphasis is on comedy and in latter years it has offered a platform for budding writers in the group to pen their own material.
| 1999 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| 1999 | A Life | Hugh Leonard |
| 1998 | The Field | John B. Keane |
| 1998 | Birdbath | Leonard Melfi |
| 1998 | I do not like thee, Dr. Fell | Bernard Farrell |
| 1997 | Baggage | Rebecca Roper |
| 1997 | Geography of a Horse Dreamer | Sam Shepard |
| 1997 | One for the Road | Willy Russell |
| 1997 | Sive | John B. Keane |
| 1996 | Private Wars | James McClure |
| 1996 | Bar and Ger | Geraldine Aaron |
| 1996 | Shadow of a Gunman | Sean O' Casey |
| 1995 | Snow Angel | Lewis John Carlino |
| 1995 | Year of the Hiker | John B. Keane |
| 1994 | Shadow of the Glen | J. M. Synge |
| 1994 | After Magritte | Tom Stoppard |
| 1994 | Poison and Petrification | G. B. Shaw |
| 1994 | True West | Sam Shepard |
| 1993 | Summer | Hugh Leonard |
| 1993 | The Plough and the Stars | Sean O' Casey |
| 1992 | Stags and Hens | Willy Russell |
| 1992 | The Silver Dollar Boys | Neil Donnelly |
| 1991 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| 1991 | Juno and the Paycock | Sean O' Casey |
| 1990 | Woman in Mind | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1990 | The Risen People | James Plunkett |
| 1990 | All in Favour Said No | Bernard Farrell |
| 1989 | Da | Hugh Leonard |
| 1987 | Relatively Speaking | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1987 | Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen |
| 1986 | Mary Barnes | David Edgar |
| 1986 | There has to be a Reason (Access TV) | |
| 1985 | Juno and the Paycock | Sean O' Casey |
| 1984 | Habeus Corpus | Alan Bennett |
| 1984 | After Magritte | Tom Stoppard |
| 1984 | Bedtime Story | Sean O' Casey |
| 1984 | The Cat and the Moon | W. B. Yeats |
| 1983 | The Fire Raisers | Max Frisch |
| 1983 | One Seasons King | George McEwan-Green |
| 1983 | Table Manners | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1982 | The Patrick Pearse Motel | Hugh Leonard |
| 1982 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | Tom Stoppard |
| 1981 | The Plough and the Stars | Sean O' Casey |
| 1981 | Confusions | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1980 | The Hostage | Brendan Behan |
| 1980 | My Wifes Family | |
| 1979 | The Real Inspector Hound | Tom Stoppard |
| 1979 | Lovers | Brian Friel |
| 1979 | Saturday Night Women | Michael Judge |
| 1978 | LLoyd George Knew my Father | |
| 1978 | The Poker Session | Hugh Leonard |
| 1978 | Philadelphia, Here I Come | Brian Friel |
| 1977 | Ernies Incredible Illucinations | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1977 | Habeus Corpus | Alan Bennett |
| 1977 | Ashling | |
| 1976 | Many Young Men of Twenty | John B. Keane |
| 1976 | The Will | Eamonn Olwill |
| 1975 | The Dear Departed | |
| 1975 | The Bald Prima Donna | Eugene Ionesco |
| 1974 | On Trial |
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