A summer of joy and heartbreak as five sisters dance on the brink of change.
Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by Brian Friel that chronicles a single summer in 1936 for the five Mundy sisters in a fictional Irish village. Narrated by an adult Michael Evans, the play is a memory play that looks back on his childhood and his mother’s and aunts’ lives, highlighting themes of change, tradition and the unreliability of memory. The sisters, who are approaching middle age, navigate the challenges of their isolated lives, romantic interests and the arrival of Uncle Jack, who’s returned from missionary work in Africa. The annual Lughnasa festival provides a backdrop for moments of both joy and profound sadness as it coincides with the family’s realisation that their hopes are fading and their household is about to be broken apart.
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Dancing at Lughnasa
While our production could promote inclusion by casting a disabled actor to play Rose, a character with a diagnosed intellectual disability, we’ve not gone down this route but aim to ensure the production’s artistic choices respectfully reflect the character’s difficulties which, of course, is apparent within the text. The play’s themes of cultural identity, gender, class struggle and tensions between pagan and Catholic beliefs, and the impact of industrialisation and modernisation on traditional Irish life, have been carefully researched and are sympathetically portrayed.
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