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2007 : Dancing At Lughnasa

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An amateur production by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd

RAODS presents

Dancing At Lughnasa

by Brian Friel.

Tuesday 26th - Saturday 30th June at 7.30pm.

Ticket prices:
Tuesday £6.00 all seats,
Wednesday and Thursday £7.00 all seats,
Friday and Saturday £8.00 all seats.
Seating Plan A1

Dancing At Lughnasa

It is 1936 in Ballybeg, County Donegal where we meet the five unmarried and impoverished Mundy sisters through the eyes of Chris's son Michael, now in middle-age, as he looks back to the summer of 1936 when he was a boy of seven. His memories recall a surviving tradition - the Festival of Lughnasa (pronounced “loonasa”), a pagan thanksgiving for the harvest, and a time for dancing, the dominant symbol of the play. Symbolically too it is also the time that Jack, a Roman Catholic priest, brother to the sisters and Michael's uncle, returns from Uganda after twenty five years. With a wealth of humour and sadness this is a family story told with much poignancy and understanding.

The original productions of this play are credited as:

  • World Premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Eire - 24 April 1990.
  • British Premiere at the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre, London - 15 October 1990.
  • Opened at the Phoenix Theatre, London. Produced by Bill Kenwright and Noel Pearson - 25 March 1991.
  • Originally produced on the New York stage by Noel Pearson in association with Bill Kenwright and Joseph Harris. Opened at the Plymouth Theatre - 24 October 1991.

    • Directed by Neil Gwynne
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