Dancing at Lughnasa (Acting Edition S.) - Softcover

Friel, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573017425 ISBN 13: 9780573017421

Publisher: Samuel French, 2015

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 even's of that summer are narrated in recall by the adult Michael, unfolding a tender study of these women's lives.

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Review:

"There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses." --"The Times"

From the Back Cover:

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside of the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sister, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six to forty. Braian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0573017425
• ISBN 13: 9780573017421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114