Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

  • Date: September 29, 2015 - October 25, 2015
  • Location: Portland Stage, Portland

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Dancing at Lughnasa weaves the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in the small village of Ballybeg in Ireland in l936. Set during harvest time in County Donegal, the story revolves around the five Mundy sisters who range in age from twenty-six to forty. They live together with the youngest sister’s seven-year-old son, and their brother Jack a missionary priest repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years. In depicting two days in the lives of this family, Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape – internal and external, Christian and pagan – of which they are a part. Widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, the play honors the spirit and valor of the past.

 

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Portland Stage

25 A. Forest Ave
Portland  ME  04101 

Portland Stage Box Office
207/774-0465
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http://www.portlandstage.org/show/dancing-at-lughnasa/