Nora Gallagher’s Dry Dance Hall Show

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

Comedy, Romance and Jiving in 1950s Donegal

St. Bridget’s Community Centre, Ballintra. 8.00pm €10/€5 Students, Children. Tickets At Door.

Step back in time to the jiving heyday of 1959 in this community theatre performance which sees Nora Gallagher holding court at the fictional Drumshee Dry Dance Hall. Relive the social etiquette of the time and the search for love that was part of the fabric of a 1950s rural dance hall.

Dark Daughter company actors will appear alongside a large cast of local community performers including the famed Ballintra Belles, a star turn by champion Irish dancer Alan O’Donnell of Ballybofey and many more.

There will be dancing to the music of Brian O’Sullivan and audience members are invited to take to the floor.

This setting of the Dry Dance Hall Show in Ballintra follows a similar community theatre project by Dark Daughter in Leitir Mac a’Bhaird, which was a hugely successful part of this year’s Bealtaine Festival.

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.