Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
Directed by John Wade

In the turbulent times of 1936, the five unmarried Mundy sisters live on a farm outside Ballybeg, a small town in Donegal. The imperious teacher Kate, the irreverent big-hearted keeper of the hearth Maggie, the serene familial rudder Agnes, the sweetly eccentric and simple-minded Rose, and the lonely romantic Christina, who has creased the family reputation with an illegitimate son; all are heavenly bodies revolving around the 8-year old love child, Michael. Dancing at Lughnasa is told from Michael's memories, summoning back to the end of that summer, on the eve of celebration to the harvest deity Lugh, god of music and light. But the celebration of the play...the music and the light of it...really lives within the sisters, a gift they share with each other and the ones they love.

"Most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie." - Time Magazine.

"This is no way a play to be missed - simply a wondrous experience. Experience it." - NY Post.

". . . this play does exactly what theatre was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall." - NY Times.