Butt Drama Circle miss out in drama finals in Athlone
Adjudicators Award for Excellence in New Writing for writer-director Shaun Byrne
Butt Drama Circle's An Incident with Dave Cotter, missed out on the top prize at the Dean Crowe Theatre in Athlone at the annual RTE All Ireland Theatre Finals on Saturday night but writer and director Shaun Byrne still walked away with the Adjudicators Award for Excellence in New Writing.
Overseeing proceedings the adjudicator, Michael Poynor praised the power and clarity of the Bloody Sunday play in dealing with a very emotive subject saving the honour was well deserved.
The award now returns to the trophy cabinet in the Balor Arts Centre to join the two most recent gongs picked up at the Ulster Drama Finals in Ballymena last week where the play was runner-up with Best Moment going to Shaun for his final monologue and Christopher Quinn also scooping Best Supporting Actor.
Iy has been a tremendous run for Shaun, Christopher and the team from the Butt Drama Cirlce and an indication of the depth of theatre talent in the Ballybofey-Stranorlar area.