DANCING AT LUGHNASA by Brian Friel
Directed by Beki Baker
APRIL 9-11, 15-18 at 7:30 pm
APRIL 12 at 3:30 pm
UNIVERSITY THEATRE (Black Box theatre in Sewell)
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Synopsis
This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters who live in a modest cottage in Donegal, Ireland. On the threshold of fall 1936, the household revolves around the eight year old love-child Michael, his charming yet unreliable father Gerry, and the Mundy brother priest, Uncle Jack, recently returned from 25 years in a leper colony in Uganda. The sisters both celebrate and clash as the autumnal fires celebrating the Harvest God, Lugh, bathe the high grasses in golden light. All is offered as a series of memories woven together by Michael, now a grown man and an external narrator. Infused by dream music, Lughnasa captures in simple, everyday moments swelling tensions between desire and duty, ritual and religion, and celebration and loss. Movie stars Meryl Streep.
Cast
Michael- Andrew Johnson
Kate- Scout Pittman
Maggie- Taylor Browning
Agnes- MacKenzie Lewis
Rose- Ann Marie Bagge
Chris- Lacy Hartselle
Gerry- Jonah M. Jackson
Jack- Dallas JP
Production Team
Assistant Director: Austin Hunt
Stage Manager/Props: Taylor Wood
Assistant Stage Manager: Tyler Russell
Set Design and Technical Direction: Andy Bleiler
Costume/Makeup Design: June Houghton Kingsbury
Lighting Design: David Hardy
Sound Design: Candace Nichols
Dialect/Choreography- Kari Smith
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