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Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play

Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play

by Brian Friel (Author)

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian 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 a part.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 21 May 1990
ISBN 10: 0571144799
ISBN 13: 9780571144792
Book Overview: In Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel brilliantly evokes not simply a family trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are a part.

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

There is no doubting we are in the thrall of as masterly a dramatist as the theatre possesses. --The Times
Author Bio
Brian Friel was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, in 1929. His plays include Philadelphia, Here I Come!,Translations, Faith Healer, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa and The Home Place.