Event Theme

Performed by the Changing Times Theatre Company and written by Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa is is set in Donegal, in the fictional town of Ballybeg, around the harvest festival of Lughnasa. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the narrator Michael Evans, as he recounts a summer spent in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old. The play depicts the late summer days when love briefly seems possible for some of the Mundy sisters, and the family welcomes home a frail elder brother, who has returned from life as a missionary in Africa. It describes a bitter harvest for the Mundy sisters, a time of reaping what has been sown. Touching on major aspects of Irish life still relevant to this day, it is one of the most popular and successful Irish plays ever written.

Entry Fee

€15 / €12

Venue

St John's Theatre & Arts Centre

Time

Thursday 3rd June

8.30pm