DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Presented by Irish American Theater Company
May 10-19
East End
Directed by Maureen Kennedy
DANCING AT LUGHNASA is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters as he remembers the five women who raised him, his mother and four maiden aunts.
Following the closing performance, the Company takes this show on tour to Chicago for the Acting Irish International Theater Festival at Gaelic Park.
- Fri-Sat, May 10-11 at 7:30pm
(Join us for the opening night pre-theater mixer at 6:30pm, held in the Irish Pub with plenty of homemade bruschetta.) - Sun, May 12 at 2:30pm
(All mothers can enjoy coffee or tea and scones, homemade, as always, by our Irish ladies.) - Fri-Sat, May 17-18 at 7:30pm
- Sun, May 19 at 2:30pm
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