Category: Current Productions

Ballywillan Drama Group is thrilled to announce the search for 5 Golden Ticket winners for the opening night of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! We’re inviting nominations for children (aged 16 or under) who deserve a special night at the theatre. This exclusive opportunity is for young people who have shown resilience, kindness, or courage […]

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Charlie BucketEmma-Louise Shirlow, Felix Robinson, Savannah Armstrong, Ela Richards(Charlies will cover each other) Willy WonkaAlan McClartyCover: Adam Goudy Grandpa JoePaul Sleet Mrs BucketClare Campbell Mr BeauregardeAdam Goudy Violet BeauregardeChloe Freeman-WallaceCover: Lucy Mackey Mrs GloopCharisse McDowellCover: Vicky Hogg Augustus GloopPatrick Connor Mr SaltSteve Setterfield Veruca SaltSarah McIlhaggaCover: Clare Campbell Mrs TeaveeLaura FisherCover: Vicky Hogg Mike TeaveeSteven […]

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Ballywillan Drama Group are excited to be transporting our audiences into a world of ‘Pure Imagination’ in January 2025 with the most delicious new musical… Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a golden ticket of musical theatre, featuring an outrageous ensemble with plenty of delicious, big musical numbers. Based on the famous novel by Roald […]

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In June of 2023 Ballywillan Drama Group staged one of our most successful musicals to date, KINKY BOOTS. How do you follow that? Well, we are bringing a major revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF to Northern Ireland for sixteen exclusive performances in April 2024. Last staged by Ballywillan fifteen years ago this spectacular musical event is […]

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Following on from our huge sell-out blockbuster KINKY BOOTS in June 2023, Ballywillan Drama Group return to the Riverside with a wonderfully funny play ANYONE FOR BREAKFAST? written by the master of comedy scripts Derek Benfield. ANYONE FOR BREAKFAST plays from Tue 23 until Sat 27 Jan 2024 at the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine. The play […]

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Ballywillan  Drama  Group return to the stage a few months after their hugely successful The Best of Broadway and the West End musical in the Riverside Theatre in January. But not to the Riverside stage………. This Easter, to celebrate the group’s 70th birthday, they are going back to Portrush Town Hall, where their first production […]

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It is with sad hearts that we must announce the postponement of our musical, KINKY BOOTS, which was scheduled for January 2022 in the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine. The theatre management has informed us that they are awaiting improvement works to take place and until further notice are unable to host large-scale productions and those which […]

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