The Annual Enniskillen Drama Festival got underway at the weekend and continues until this Saturday. In Flame, a Charlotte Jones play, performed by the Ballymoney Literary and Debating Society, brought the curtain up on Friday.

Since then such masterpieces as 'On flew over the cuckoo's nest' and 'the Steel Magnolias' have been performed. If you have not been to the festival yet there are still four opportunities to see the very best in amateur dramatics. Tonight (Wednesday) sees a William Mastosimone play, 'Extremities', take to the stage with the Bradan Players from Leixlip county Kildare performing it.

This emotionally evocative play which sees a young man break into a young woman's house with rape being his motive. But through twists and turns in this highly emotive play the table turns so that we are not sure who the victim is.

Tommorow night a lighter play will take to the stage with the performance of 'Blythe Spirit' by Omagh Players. This wonderful, weird and witty classic occurs when seance goes wrong in an English Drawing room bringing forth mischievous mysterious ghosts. The playwright is Noel Coward, the debonair master of sophistication and satire.

Get the weekend off to a dark and sombre start with Arthur Millar's classic play 'The Price'.

A play set in the time of the Wall Street crash, two estranged brothers meet in the attic of the family residence after a 16 year estrangement to discuss what needs to be sold off. The play looks at the duties and responsibilities and rivalries that take place in a family unit.

The curtain will come down on the Festival with 'Shoot the Crow'. Performed by The Clarence Players of Belfast and written by Owen McCaffrey is set around four tilers from Belfast with conflicting dreams for their lives and how to attain them. This is a hard hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living. And I am sure most of us can identify with that.