DANCING AT LUGHNASAIRISH REPERTORY THEATRE
132 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
THIS PRODUCTION HAS CLOSED.
OFF-BROADWAY SHOW INFORMATION
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday – Saturday @ 8pm, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday @ 3pmOFFICIAL WEBSITE
www.irishrep.org/dancingatlughnasa.htmlRUNNING TIME
2 hr. (includes 1 intermission)GENRE
Off-Broadway PlayPERFORMANCE DATES
Performances from October 20, 2011Opening: October 30, 2011
Closing: December 11, 2011
MISCELLANEOUS
Click here for maps, directions, restaurant and hotel recommendations, and more at this venue.SYNOPSIS - ABOUT THE SHOW
DANCING AT LUGHNASA opened on
Broadway in October, 1991 and won the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play.
This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study
of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five
brave, Glenties women”) who live in a modest cottage in Donegal. On the
threshold of the autumn of 1936, the household revolves around the eight year
old love-child, Michael, and the Mundy brother priest, Uncle Jack, recently
returned from 25 years in a leper colony in Uganda. Ancient tribal customs and
Christian beliefs clash as the autumnal fires celebrating the Harvest God,
Lugh, bathe the high grass in golden light and distant music on the radio floats
across the fields.
The sisters, with unfailing courage and sweet forgiveness dance in a wild,
final celebration of their way of life before it changes forever.
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