Waterford Theatre Archive

Waterford Theatre Archive

Waterfords Theatre History... Always a work in progress

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    • Brian Flynn Theatrix
    • De La Salle Musical Society
      • De La Salle MS Misc. Docs
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    • Edmund Rice CMS
      • Edmund Rice CMS Misc. Docs
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    • Flaggy Lane Productions
      • Flaggy Lane Productions Show Programmes
      • Flaggy Lane Productions Photos
      • Flaggy Lane Productions Videos
    • Jack Cunningham Productions
    • Quay Players Musical and Dramatic Society
    • South Eastern Theatre Group
      • South Eastern Programmes
      • South Eastern Videos
    • Spotlight / Premier Productions
      • Spotlight / Premier – Show Programmes
      • Spotlight / Premier – Misc Documents
      • Spotlight / Premier – Videos
    • Tara Anne Byrne Reviews
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  • Tops
    • Tops Audio
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    • Tops Programmes
    • Tops Videos
  • WIFLO
    • WIFLO – Season Brochures
    • WIFLO Misc. Docs
    • WIFLO Videos
  • Drama
    • All Of A Sudden Theatre Company
    • Four Rivers
    • Open Space Theatre Company
    • Quay Players
    • Red Kettle Theatre Company
    • Smith School Of Acting
    • Theatre Royal Productions – Drama
    • Waterford Dramatic Society
  • Variety
  • Stage Schools
    • TheatreBox Stage School
  • Street Theatre
  • The ‘C’ Streams
  • Legends
    • Des Manahan
  • Waterford Panto Society (1985-)
    • Waterford Panto Videos
  • Miscellaneous
    • Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary
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1964 – WIFLO Season Brochure

October 14, 2017 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

Back to 1964 and a real rarity – the season brochure from the Festival of Light Opera. There’s 156 pages of pictures, shows and even adverts from old shops to look at (sometimes the adverts […]

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1970 – WIFLO Season Brochure

May 16, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

A look back into our WIFLO heritage today and the season brochure from the 1970 Festival, when the festival was truly international and it seemed to have more societies from outside the state competing. A […]

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1974 – WIFLO Season Brochure

February 14, 2019 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

This is a rather unusual programme for WIFLO – it merely lists the shows and has all the usual paraphernalia with committees and lists etc… but has no actual details for the show casts etc. […]

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1977 – WIFLO Season Brochure

March 10, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

One for all the WIFLO fans today, and the season brochure from the 1977 festival. I always feel these are so important to keep – WIFLO was a huge part of our heritage in Waterford. […]

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1978 – WIFLO Season Brochure

November 15, 2017 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

It’s great to fill up the history of WIFLO with the season brochures… still a long way to go before I’m even close to it but it’s terrific to get older season brochures into the […]

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1994 – WIFLO Season Brochure

June 26, 2021 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

1994 was the year that De La Salle entered with ‘The King And I’ after scooping the AIMS best show award. We had 2 productions of Chess – Playback Productions and eventual winners Carrick On […]

Edmund Rice CMS Programmes

1997 – WIFLO Season Brochure

March 9, 2020 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

These season brochures are so important to archive. This year our sole Waterford representative was the Edmund Rice Choral And Musical Society with Iolanthe. Mind you our near neighbours from Carrick On Suir were down […]

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1999 – WIFLO Season Brochure

March 24, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

1999 featured no Waterford Shows in the line-up – it is however always good to add in new WIFLO stuff to the archive!  Have a browse! Added to the WIFLO archive here.

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2001 – WIFLO Season Brochure

June 7, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

Once again for archiving purposes I like to include the season brochures of WIFLO from time to time. This year – 2001 – the sole Waterford entries were De La Salle College with a production […]

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2002 – WIFLO Season Brochure

February 17, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

2002 was a quiet year for local participation, but Bowler Hat and local choir Lumen provided the final night concert. 

Flaggy Lane Productions Show Programmes

2006 – WIFLO Season Brochure

July 18, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

2006 was the year when Flaggy Lane lifted the international trophy for the second time in 2 years, and for only the second time out of 3 times in total that a Waterford show won […]

South Eastern Programmes

2012 – The last WIFLO Season Brochure

February 27, 2019 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

By request here is the final WIFLO Brochure from 2012 – the festival that saw the South Eastern Theatre Group sweep the boards with Les Miserables. The Festival had fallen from 18 shows at its […]

WIFLO

The Waterford International Festival of Light Opera (WIFLO)

July 3, 2017 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

The Waterford International Festival of Light Opera or WIFLO as it was more affectionately known was one of the main reasons (the other being The Tops) that Waterford enjoyed a status of being the ‘Mecca’ […]

Flaggy Lane Productions Videos

2005 – Broadway Melody from ‘Singing In The Rain’

November 8, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

A clip from the ‘Singing In The Rain’ that took the WIFLO honours in 2005 from our own Flaggy Lane Productions… this is ‘Broadway Melody’ – enjoy!

WIFLO Videos

2005 – A Day In The Life of WIFLO

April 10, 2018 waterfordtheatrearchive 3

This wonderful video (thanks to Clodagh Power) tracks a day in the life of WIFLO when in 2005 the Derby Gilbert & Sullivan company under the direction of multi-award winning Andrew Nicklin allowed the cameras […]

Radio Documentary Posts

The Festival – A Radio Documentary

February 9, 2017 waterfordtheatrearchive 0

This is the specially made program celebrating the 50th year of the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera.  Produced and edited by Wayne Brown, narrated by Jamie Beamish it was first broadcast on WLRFM in […]

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