Sneem DramSoc is an amateur dramatic society based in Sneem, County Kerry, Ireland.
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2013 - The Tinker's Wedding and The Shadow of The Glen
Dramsoc reprised its staging of the Wicklow plays, THE TINKER’S WEDDING and THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN which we last presented in 2009. The first of these is a farce in which a young, impulsive, violent tinkerwoman seeks to have her marriage-vow solemnised by a money-grabbing priest; the second is a more sophisticated psychological drama, a comedy with a tragic ending, where Nora, a young woman in an enforced marriage to an old dotard, contemplates her prospects for escape, limited as they are by the harsh landscape of the Wicklow hills which has already resulted in the madness and death of her former lover. The tinker’s precious freedom can only be threatened by conformity; for Nora Burke, freedom is well nigh unattainable.
2012 - The Year of the Hiker
The Hiker Lacey walked out of his home 20 years ago, abandoning his wife and three children. He returns on the very day of his daughter's wedding. He should have been forgotten long ago but recollections of times past are revived on the otherwise happy day. The abandoned wife, the busybody sister-in-law, and the three young people act out their varied responses of anger, shame, indifference and pity over the succeeding weeks as the dying Hiker makes his final, cathartic journey from self-justification to reconciliation.
2010 - An Enemy of The People
Dr. Tom Staunton is medical officer to the spa baths. His brother Peter is town Mayor and chairman of the baths committee. Discovering that the water is polluted, the doctor recommends closure of the baths for essential repairs. He expects this revelation to be welcomed by the local councillors, the townspeople, and newspaper and that he will be hailed as a hero. To his surprise, he is spurned by his brother, who prevents an exposure in the local paper, and attacked by local tradesmen and townspeople as an enemy of the people at a public meeting. He is suspected of manipulating his findings for financial gain. The play is one of Ibsen’s most overtly political, attacking political correctness and the blinkered majority which acts only out of self-interest, and on the timeless theme of the refusal of every generation to accept inconvenient facts.