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Dancing at Lughnasa

Presented by Belmont University - College of Visual and Performing Arts at Belmont University - Troutt Theater

September 30-October 9, 2011

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Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old. This play is loosely based on the lives of Friel's mother and aunts who lived in the Glenties, on the west coast of Donegal. Set in 1936, during the summer before de Valera's new constitution was approved by referendum, the play depicts the late summer days when love briefly seems possible for three of the Mundy sisters (Chris, Rose, and Kate) and the family welcomes home the frail elder brother, who has returned from a life as missionary in Africa. However, as the summer ends, the family foresees the sadness and economic privations under which they will suffer as all hopes fade. The play was originally presented at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1990. It transferred to London's National Theatre in 1991, and won the Olivier Award for Play of the Year. In 1992, the play was produced on Broadway and won numerous awards including the Tony Award for Best Play and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Play.

Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old. This play is loosely based on the lives of Friel's mother and aunts who lived in the Glenties, on the west coast of Donegal. Set in 1936, during the summer before de Valera's new constitution was approved by referendum, the play depicts the late summer days when love briefly seems possible for three of the Mundy sisters (Chris, Rose, and Kate) and the family welcomes home the frail elder brother, who has returned from a life as missionary in Africa. However, as the summer ends, the family foresees the sadness and economic privations under which they will suffer as all hopes fade. The play was originally presented at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1990. It transferred to London's National Theatre in 1991, and won the Olivier Award for Play of the Year. In 1992, the play was produced on Broadway and won numerous awards including the Tony Award for Best Play and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Play.