Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa Author: Brian Friel
First Performance: 1990, Dublin
Published: 1990
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Kitchen and garden of the Mundy family, County Donegal, Ireland, 1936
Cast: 3m, 5f
Michael, the Narrator, reminisces about his childhood and especially the harvest-time Celtic Festival of Lughnasa, August 1936, when the five Mundy sisters bought a new wireless and their brother Father Jack returned after 25 years’ working in a leper colony in Uganda. The five sisters are all spinsters and poor, because the oldest, Kate, a 40-year-old schoolteacher, is the only wage-earner, although Agnes and their simple sister Rose make a little money knitting gloves at home. Chris, the youngest and most attractive sister, is 7-year-old Michael's mother. Kate is outraged at stories of pagan dancing for...
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