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All-Ireland Drama Festival
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When:
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2 - 10 May 2008 (annual)
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Where:
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Dean Crowe Theatre & Arts Centre
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Season Ticket €100; concessions €75
Individual nights €15; concessions €12
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The All-Ireland Drama Festival is a competition that brings groups of actors and directors from all over the country to perform at the Dean Crowe Theatre & Arts Centre in Athlone. The event also includes poetry, puppetry, exhibitions and dance.
Various plays are performed over the nine nights of the festival, all of which must have won at least two of the smaller qualifying festivals which take place during the previous months.
Because of its strategic position, Athlone has a rich historical heritage, and no visitor to the town should miss out on two of the most important monuments: Athlone Castle, an impressive building with a chequered past (it's been conquered, half-destroyed and rebuilt several times over by different warring factions), and the site of Clonmacnoise, one of Ireland's most important early Christian monasteries.
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