“Dancing at Lughnasa” at Alliance Repertory

“Dancing at Lughnasa”
by Brian Friel

The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son as he remembers the five women who raised him, his mother and four maiden aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for 25 years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And he meets his father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields. From these small events spring the cracks that destroy the foundation of the family forever. But this haunting play is Friel's tribute to the spirit and valor of the past and its people.

Performed by Alliance Repertory
At Kean - The Little Theatre
Performances ran
Thursday, June 15, 2000 thru Sunday, June 25, 2000
Agnes.... Judy Toma Has Bio
Chris.... Jennifer Huttenburger
Gary.... Shawn Corbett Has Bio Has photo
Jack.... Fred Schwab Has Bio
Kate.... Catherine Rowe Has Bio
Maggie.... Angela Della Ventura Has Bio Has photo
Rose.... Tracey Randinelli Has Bio
Directed by Michael J. Driscoll Has Bio
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