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Hawk’s Well celebrates 30th Birthday Party on Saturday 21st January

The Hawk’s Well Theatre turned 30 on the 12th of January 2012! Here at the Hawk’s Well we are in celebratory mode. We are celebrating 30 years of fantastic performances from professional and local theatre companies, bands, musicians, comedians and performers. The party to celebrate will take place on Saturday 21st following the final performance of Druid’s Big Maggie. Druid were the first theatre company to perform at the Hawk’s Well when the theatre opened in 1982 with their production of Much Ado About Nothing and we are delighted to have them back to help us celebrate.

On Saturday 21st January at 6.30pm the exhibition ’30 years at the Hawk’s Well’ will be opened. The staff of the theatre have been busy travelling down memory lane and compiling this exhibition of photographs, old programmes and memorabilia from the performances which the theatre has hosted over the decades. The exhibition opens on Saturday 21st and will be on display in the foyer of the theatre for a month.

Garry Hynes, Artistic Director of Druid is the special guest of the theatre on Saturday night and will mark the occasion with a few words at 7pm along with speeches from Gerry McCanny, Chairperson of the Hawk’s Well Theatre, Marie O’Byrne, Director of the theatre, Val Balance from the Arts Council and the Mayor Rosaleen O’Grady.

Following the sold out performance of Big Maggie the Hawk’s Well will open its doors to the public to celebrate 30 years of performance with music from Sligo band Anything Goes in the foyer from 10.30 til late.

As part of the celebrations the Hawk’s Well logo was redesigned by Sligo designer Daragh Stewart whose Mother Pauline Stewart designed the original logo 30 years ago. The theatre’s new website will also be launched on the night.

Celebrations will continue throughout the year with a special Birthday gig every month. The Birthday gig for January is of course Big Maggie followed by Sligo Musical Society’s production of The Wizard of Oz in February, Millennium Forum Productions ‘Carthaginians’ by Frank McGuinness in March and the Kilfenora Céilí Band in April.