Dancing At Lughnasa

by Brian Friel


Please Note: General bookings for this production will open on Wednesday 25th September at 12:00

Dates: Thursday 21st November to Saturday 23rd November

Times: All evening performances will begin at 19:30. All matinee performances will begin at 14:30.

Venue: PATS Studio Theatre
Duration: TBC


Synopsis: Premiered at Dublin's Abbey Theatre, this multi-award winning play is about five impoverished spinster sisters in a remote part of County Donegal in 1936. With them live Michael, seven-year old son of the youngest sister, and Jack, the 'sisters' elder brother, a missionary priest newly returned from Africa. The events of that summer are narrated in recall by the adult Michael, unfolding a tender study of these women's lives. 

Genre:  Dramatic comedy
Recommended age: Suitable for ages 12 and over
Themes:  family, relationships, loss
Set in:  rural Ireland, 1930s

Reviews

Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best plays for 1991, saying it is, “The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie."

“…this play does exactly what theatre was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of distant music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall.” —The New York Times.

“This is no way a play to be missed—simply a wondrous experience. Experience it.” —New York Post.

 
This live production features BA Acting final year students in collaboration with BA Theatre Production and MA Stage Management students.

Director: Nadia Papachronopoulu
Set Designer: Tara Usher
Costume Designer: Zoe Murdoch
Lighting Desginer: Jon Stacey

If you require accessible seating or have any other enquiries including booking difficulties, please email: [email protected] or call 01483 686876.