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Dancing at Lughnasa

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Five unmarried sisters in a small Irish village in 1936 hope and dream of a better life, while music from their radio transforms and transports them. This haunting play is a tribute to the spirit and valor of family.
Winner of 3 Tony Awards.

During the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing, their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large.

The play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters 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 twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony.

The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own
kitchen. 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.

This haunting play is a tribute to the spirit and valor of family.

The play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son of one of the sisters 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 twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony.

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. This haunting play is a tribute to the spirit and valor of family.

The sisters are played by Susannah Hough (Kate), Leanne Heintz (Maggie), Renee Wimberly (Agnes),  Betsy Henderson (Christine),  Christine Zagrobelny (Rose), The male members of the cast are Michael Keough and John Honeycutt (sharing the role of Father Jack), Ryan Brock (Michael), Adam Sichel (young Michael), Jason Sharp (Gerry).
Dancing at Lughnasa is directed by The Justice Theater Project’s Artistic Director, Deb Royals. The associate director is Brett Stegall. The design team includes sound designer Julie Jones,  lighting and set designers Lexie Nichols and Rebecca Buck,  costuming designer David Serxner,  stage manager Andy Hayworth, oundboard operator Elsbeth Turner.

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