By Sean Moriarty

Students from Michael Fassbender’s West End School of the Arts are getting the chance to showcase their talents through a local performing group.

Four Esquire Productions is a amateur drama group based at Courtney’s Bar on Plunkett St founded in 2019 by Paddy Osborne and Brian Bowler.

This week the group’s November schedule featured a three-play run over three nights.

The upstairs section of the well-known music and arts bar was packed out for the three nights as audiences from near and far witnessed Four Esquires’ latest run.

All three plays are written, directed and performed by local enthusiasts.

“There is a wealth of talent in this county. We are also very fortunate to have several actors who are training in the West End House School of Arts, involved in the new show," said Paddy Osborne. “It is great for them and fantastic for us too."

The group were also joined by actress Myroslava Voronoska, a member of Killarney’s Ukrainian community, who made her debut in Osborne’s ‘Fishy Tale’.

“Courtney’s Bar has long been associated with dramatic events both scheduled and unscheduled. From the days of Bricru in the 1990s to the current Four Esquires, the building has hosted many varied, innovative and off the wall productions,” Brian Murphy of Courtney’s Bar said.