The Barn Owl Players have been working and training over the past three yars and this months sees the launch of the group's first 'annual' One-Act Theatre Festival.

Five plays will be presented in two programmes over four nights from 14 - 18 June in The Barn.

Programme #1 (14th & 15th June):
Laundry & Bourbon by James McLure will feature Trisha Hogan, Eithne Reilly and Janis Woodgate
Cocaine by Pendleton King features Hughie Glynn and Laura Keys directed by Willie Ryan,
Here We Are by Dorothy Parker with actors Nicola Keating and Willie Ryan, directed by Sheila Kirby.

Programme #2 (17th & 18th June):
Lone Star by James McLure with Jim Carroll, John Whitely and Michael Sommer directed by Philip Hardy,
Costa del Packet by with a strong female cast - Sinéad Goggin, Ita Morrissey, Nuala Roche, Mary Cody and Naoise Coogan directed by Trish Brennan.

This is a coming-of-age for the members of the Adult Drama Club @ Barnstorm, and will see the 27-strong group mount an ambitious event with the One-Act Theatre Festival as actors, directors, designers, operators and producers. Now the Barn Owl Players, the group have exciting plans for the future with production and innovative projects planned for the start of a new year in September and throughout the following year.

Barnstorm plans to address the demand from others in the region by starting a new group of Adult Drama Club membrs in September. Philip Hardy of Barnstorm says, "There is quite a waiting list already but places will be limited to 22 new members".