Nora Gallagher’s – Dry Dance Hall Days

Written by Maura Logue. Performed by the Company and a Community Cast.

Comedy, Romance and Jiving in 1950s Donegal.

Meet Nora Gallagher, the Cloakroom Girl at Drumshee Dry Dance Hall, who sees and knows all. Nora  introduces us to a host of characters from the fictional townland Drumshee. We meet the Oddities, the Oldies and of course the young ones, looking for love.  She reminds us that Fr. Maloney watches over everything and is suspicious of the Strabane Boys Band and their jazz music and the jiving craze that’s sweeping the land.

We hear of poor Jimmy Rua, useless at seeking romance.  Will the Dolly Birds find love? Will Nora herself be lucky ?  To find put, join Nora in a homegrown Donegal comedy yarn and a walk down memory lane, to the Dry Dance Hall Days of the 1950s.   

Maura Logue is an actor, playwright, theatre director and creative producer from Donegal. Founder and artistic director of Dark Daughter Productions, she has created many memorable theatre works for the Festival, often on a theme of strong women from times past.  Highlights have included Síle Molloy (2018), Mother Loss (2016) and Anna Katherine Kelly (2012). Maura developed the character Nora Gallagher during the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, creating a series of hugely popular online storytelling sessions set in a fictional 1950s Donegal, accompanied by musician David Ison, and which were a highlight of the Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festivals, during those dark times.