Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
Directed by Yvonne Martin
Performance Season:
24th July – 1st August
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Director, Yvonne Martin has chosen a strong ensemble of dedicated actors and production crew, details are published below.
Dancing at Lughnasa...Throughout the whole of Ireland and in parts of Great Britain and France, a festival celebrating the beginning of harvest was held every year in early August.
In Ireland that festival was called Lughnasa (Loon-nasa) after Lugh, the pagan God, who had once more provided the rich crops.
(Lugh’s counterpart was the Roman God Mercury, and the Greek God Hermes.)
Nobody understands the passion and poetry of everyday life better than the Irish and in this wonderful family story there is plenty of both.
Spinning the tale is the man who was brought up by his mother and four aunts in rural Donegal, but this is much more than a nostalgic growing up account.
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Within the kitchen of their cottage the sisters create a climate of rich unpredictability and beyond its solid walls lies the even stranger world of the pagan festival of Lugh.
At Lughnasa , in harvest time, all that matters is the dance. This is a haunting play, in turns tender and savage but always captivating in its human drama and heart warming in its humour. |
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